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Thursday, October 17, 2013

USS Spruance departs from San Diego


The guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance left San Diego Wednesday for the Western Pacific.

The Arleigh Burke class vessel and its crew of 260 officers and enlisted personnel will head to the western Pacific to conduct security operation with other nations, according to the Navy.

"We'll primarily do maritime security operations and also what we call theater security cooperation - that's working with other countries to enhance cooperation between our country and their country, and specifically focused on the Navy and relations there," Cmdr. George Kessler, the ship's commanding officer, told local media.

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