USS Carney enters Black Sea as Navy ups patrols
JAMES R. TURNER/U.S. NAVY
By SCOTT WYLAND | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 8, 2018
NAPLES, Italy — The USS Carney cruised into the Black Sea on Friday, the third U.S. destroyer since August to patrol the tense region.
In the past, U.S. warships sailed into the Black Sea only sporadically and mostly for allied exercises. But the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS Porter and James E. Williams patrolled those waters in August and late November, respectively.
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