The USS Truxtun, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, built at Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., is bound for the Black Sea; but the sea-service calls it a routine visit and not related to events in the Ukraine. DDG 103 left from a port in Greece on Thursday and was scheduled to train and conduct maneuvers with both Romania and Bulgaria’s navies. Truxton is to join with USS Taylor, currently moored in Turkey after running aground, as the only American ships in the Black Sea. Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is at the center of the country’s operations in Ukraine, where Russian soldiers continue to surround Ukrainian military bases. Source: Stars and Stripes, 03/06/14.
(Gulf Coast Shipbuilding/Central Mississippi note: Truxton was built at Northrop’s Ingalls Shipyard. Truxton Command Master Chief (SW/AW) Albert A. McCurdy is a native of Montgomery, Ala., and has also served with Commander Naval Reserve Readiness Command Region 10 in New Orleans and in USS Antrim (FFG 20), the first ship assigned to the now-closed Naval Station Mobile, Ala. He trained as a yeoman in A-school at NAS Meridian, Miss. McCurdy has been CMC of Truxton since September 2013.)
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