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In the latest from the US 6th Fleet, the Aegis destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is headed through the straits at Istanbul to the Black Sea. Of course, Cook is on a routine inter-operational training mission with NATO allies etc and not there due to the whole Ukraine-Russia tiff.

Crimea, what’s a Crimea?

Donald Cook is the first of four Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to be forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, in support of the President’s European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) to ballistic missile defense in Europe. More here