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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Destroyer squadron gets downsized

USS Farragut (DDG-99)The Navy is shuttering Destroyer Squadron 24 on Sept. 30 after 55 years of service, as part of a larger reorganization to cut the overhead costs of operational staffs.

DESRON 24 has had a memorable history, dating back to the days of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.

The squadron, which was stood up in 1956 and homeported in Newport, R.I., dispatched four ships to support the naval quarantine around Cuba.

They secured boarding clearances for five Soviet merchant ships and helped to surface a Soviet submarine.

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