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 ...
The Spruance-class destroyer was as large as a World War II cruiser—but Congress nearly killed the program because lawmakers thought the ship didn’t look imposing enough next to heavily armed Soviet ...