Donald J. Trump

The USS Farragut, the USS Donald Cook, the USS Mason, the USS Delbert D. Black, the USS Ross, USS Cole, USS Neitz, USS Gonzalez, and USS Kearney.

Each of these powerful warships is manned by 320 of America's finest sailors, highly trained, battle-ready war fighters who embody the skill, spirit, and dedication to make the United States Navy the greatest naval force in history.

Their seamless teamwork and unwavering commitment delivering precision firepower upon our nation's enemies from the surface of the sea.

Aboard the aircraft carrier, the commander of destroyer squadron 2-2 operates as the sea combatant commander for the George H. W. Bush carrier strike group.

The Deseret commander is responsible for directing each of destroyers under his command to successfully engage in anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare.

Admiral Masso, you and I were shipmates in the, I think, Desron 23, the Little Beavers, the very famous destroyer squadron from World War II.

The destroyer squadron works underneath the carrier battle group to make sure they get protection for the carrier, sir?

They do.

The Desron 23 staff, of which we're both familiar with from those days long ago, will reside on the aircraft carrier, and they will fight the Desrons that support the strike group from the carrier.

And again, as the narrator said,

It's not just anti-submarine warfare, but it's anti-surface warfare, and it's tracking intel and reconnaissance and everything that goes with the warfighting calculus.

Also, Captain Fennell, the fast attack submarines, they are absolutely essential to what we call the protection of the shore.

It's not just the surface Navy and our ASW capability, anti-submarine warfare capability.

Fast attack submarines and direct support of the carrier battle group are also essential, particularly given developments in the Chinese Navy, sir?

and our fast attack friends have been focused on kind of more independent operations.

But when we get back to the kind of confrontation that we had with the Soviet Navy, now that we will face from a Chinese Navy that's building submarines at a rapid pace and has been building them, we need to make sure that we have our hunter killer submarines protecting our high value assets.

So that gets into the, you know, we talk about the missiles coming in from

Up above, we also have to protect from the undersea, and the Chinese have air power, fast attack.

The Phalanx Weapon System provides U.S.

Navy ships with an interlayer point defense capability against anti-missiles, low-frying aircraft, UAVs, and high-speed surface craft.