USS Donald Cook wraps up surge deployment to 6th Fleet

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USS Donald Cook wraps up surge deployment to 6th Fleet
By Diana Stancy Correll
Apr 27, 04:58 PM
The destroyers Forrest Sherman and Donald Cook conduct maneuvering drills with the German air-defense frigate Sachsen on the Baltic Sea March 9. The Donald Cook was part of a four-destroyer surge deployment to U.S. Sixth Fleet in January. (AWS2 Reuben Richardson/Navy)

The guided-missile destroyer Donald Cook has concluded a surge deployment to U.S. 6th Fleet after getting underway in late January.

While tensions with Russia were rising due its massing of troops on the Ukraine border, Donald Cook deployed along with the Mitscher, the Gonzalez and The Sullivans to participate in a variety of maritime activities supporting the U.S. 6th Fleet and NATO allies, providing them additional flexibility, Navy spokesman Cmdr. Arlo Abrahamson told Navy Times in early February. But defense officials insisted the surge was not in response to Russian provocations.

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