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Friday, February 17, 2012

Navy announces destroyers to be based in Spain

USS Ross in the Altantic OceanCrews of four East Coast destroyers may want to brush up on their high-school Spanish.

The Ross, Donald Cook and Porter, now based in Norfolk, Va., and the Carney, from Mayport, Fla., will be forward deployed to Spain by 2015, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced Thursday.

“We welcome Spain’s partnership in stationing four U.S. Navy Aegis ships at Naval Station Rota,” Mabus said. “We have a long history of cooperation between our two countries and we have developed significant interoperability between our naval forces.”

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