The 5-inch gun fires on USS Spruance (DD 963) during live fire exercises in the Arabian Gulf, Aug. 8, 2004. Spruance is attached to USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) strike group and is on a routine 6-month ...

In August 1990, USS Spruance (DD 963) departed Mayport, Fla. with the USS Saratoga Battlegroup on a regularly-scheduled Med deployment just days after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Authorized to ...

Ingalls shipbuilding has a long history in destroyer shipbuilding, beginning with the keel-laying of the USS Spruance (DD 963) in the same shipyard over 40 years ago, in 1972. Ralph Johnson is the ...

His first tour of duty was aboard USS Spruance (DD 963) from January 1997 until November 2000, where he served as Communications Officer, Training Officer and First Lieutenant. In October 2004 ...

The destroyer USS Spruance recently helped the Coast Guard and agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, take 13 people into custody as part of the ship’s mission to bolster ...

The USS Russell (DDG 59), one of the original ... incorporating much of the Spruance-class (DD 963) destroyer propulsion, and ...

SAN DIEGO — The guided missile destroyer USS Spruance and the guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens are scheduled to return to Naval Base San Diego Thursday following separate deployments to the ...