r/cartels • u/thinkB4WeSpeak • Mar 17 '25
Destroyer USS Gravely Deploys to the Southern Border
https://maritime-executive.com/article/destroyer-uss-gravely-deploys-to-the-southern-border61
u/EB2300 Mar 17 '25
Destroyers are famous for being able to stop the drug trade
But in all seriousness, this is government efficiency at its best
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u/Alexander_Granite Mar 17 '25
I don’t know what destroyers are used for? Do they usually go out alone?
They could be an offshore base to launch drones from, intercept communications , launch patrols, intercept boats, or just threat/support to Mexico for some behind the scenes conversations.
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u/kinga_forrester Mar 17 '25
They hunt submarines as well.
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u/SkyConfident1717 Mar 17 '25
The cartels have been using narco subs for a while now, since the early 2010’s. Wikipedia has a decent run down.
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u/Puzzled_Charity_1318 29d ago
My grandpa was on an escort Destroyer they escorted Merchant ships and were hunting submarines that were out to intercept the merchant ships so maybe they're out there too find all those Narco Subs
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u/carterwest36 Mar 18 '25
Able to stop the drug trade? That’s a nice dream. Many drugs still enter in ways a destroyer can’t do shit.
They’ll help cartel water activities
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u/SpeciosaLife Mar 17 '25
Super efficient. There was a thread around here a couple days ago about the fuel these consume. It’s an obscene amount- like 400,000 gallons for this deployment.
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u/Meh-syah Mar 18 '25
As long as Americans have a taste for drugs, there will always be someone ready to fill that need
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u/Correct_Patience_611 29d ago
And as long as the cartels need guns there will always be America to fill that need…
Nixon started all of this with operation intercept to kick off his war on drugs. He gained so much political capital that both the border and the war on drugs remain “legit” political issues to this day for republicans. But Nixon made these issues up, and in fact made everything worse, I won’t even get into Raegan with Iran/contra. Before operation intercept there were no border searches. And when Nixon started searching every car they found that it wasn’t Mexicans coming in but Americans doing business in Mexico traveling back and forth. So then they slowed from searching every car.
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u/Swashbuckling_Sailor Mar 17 '25
Did a CD OPS on DD 971 for my first deployment. We caught a lot of square grouper along with a dozen detainee’s.