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    USS Higgins (DDG-76) is a United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (Flight II). Higgins is the 26th ship of her class, and the 15th of the class...
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    the Persian Gulf, the USS Higgins left the Fifth Fleet area. After paying port visits to Thailand, Japan, and Guam, the Higgins arrived at Naval Base...
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    USS Ross (DDG-71) USS Mahan (DDG-72) USS Decatur (DDG-73) USS McFaul (DDG-74) USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) USS Higgins (DDG-76) USS O'Kane (DDG-77) USS Porter...
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    destroyer would be named after Higgins. On October 4, 1997, the USS Higgins (DDG-76) was christened by Higgins' widow, Robin Higgins and commissioned on April...
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    tours include duty with USS Chandler, USS Princeton, executive officer of USS Gettysburg as well as commanding the USS Higgins and USS Benfold and Destroyer...
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    executive officer of the destroyers USS Higgins (DDG-76) and USS Benfold (DDG-65). She later commanded the frigate USS Curts (FFG-38) from April 2007 to...
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    "Development of Landing Craft" USS Rankin (AKA-103): LCVP USS LST 494 Higgins Boats Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine Higgins Industries Motor Torpedo...
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    USS Robert Smalls (CG-62) Destroyer Squadron 15 (COMDESRON 15) USS Benfold (DDG-65) USS Milius (DDG-69) USS Higgins (DDG-76) USS Howard (DDG-83) USS McCampbell (DDG-85)...
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    by way of ceremony, and non-commissioned. Ships denoted with the prefix "USS" are commissioned ships. Prior to commissioning, ships may be described as...
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    USS Higgins (DDG-76) USS O'Kane (DDG-77) USS Porter (DDG-78) USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79) USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) USS Lassen (DDG-82)...
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    USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) and USS Robert Smalls (CG-62). Destroyer Squadron 15: USS Benfold (DDG-65), USS Milius (DDG-69), USS Higgins (DDG-76), USS Howard (DDG-83)...
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  • Consists of USS Barry (DDG-52), USS Benfold (DDG-65), USS Milius (DDG-69), USS Higgins (DDG-76), USS Howard (DDG-83), USS Dewey (DDG-105), USS Ralph Johnson (DDG-114)...
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  • Department adopting the Sole Survivor Policy, USS Higgins (DDG-76), named for Marine Corps Colonel William R. Higgins, who while on a UN Peacekeeping mission...
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    USS Mahan (DDG-72) USS Decatur (DDG-73) USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) USS Higgins (DDG-76) USS O'Kane (DDG-77) USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79) USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81)...
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    Benfold, Valley Forge, Howard, Kinkaid, Milius, USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53), USS Higgins, and USS Thach. Constellation's 20th deployment began on 16...
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    January 2014. "2012 History". USS Higgins DDG-76. USCarrier.net. 18 November 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2014. "2013 History". USS McClusky FFG-41. USCarrier...
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    officer aboard USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) from April 1999 to July 2000. His first command was serving as the sixth commanding officer of USS Higgins (DDG-76) from...
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    example, officers of USS New Orleans placed 33 coins heads up under her foremast and mainmast before she was launched in 1933 and USS Higgins, commissioned in...
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  • in the exercise. These included USS Independence and her carrier battle group, USS Constellation battlegroup, the USS Essex amphibious ready group and...
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    sailed through the Taiwan Strait alongside the guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins in a freedom-of-navigation demonstration. In mid 2024, Vancouver took...
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    website Military service Branch/service United States Navy Years of service 2006–2012 Rank Lieutenant Unit USS Higgins (DDG 76) Battles/wars Iraq War...
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    Fearless was launched on 17 July 1953 by Higgins, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana; sponsored by Mrs. A. J. Higgins, Jr.; and commissioned on 22 September 1954...
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    Retrieved 3 December 2010.; Ensign Samantha J Carnahan, USN (2 March 2011). "USS Higgins Crew Fosters Partnership During Maldives Visit". NNS110302-01. U.S. 7th...
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  • (CG-70) USS Princeton (CG-59) Destroyer Squadron 1 (DESRON-1) USS Howard (DDG-83) USS Shoup (DDG-86) USS Sterett (DDG-104) USS Higgins (DDG-76) USS O'Kane...
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  • 27, 2018, a US Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, USS Higgins, and a Ticonderoga-class cruiser, USS Antietam, sailed within 12 nautical miles of the Paracel...
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    USS G-1 (SS-19½) USS G-2 (SS-27) USS G-3 (SS-31) USS G-4 (SS-26) USS G. H. McNeal (SP-312) USS G. L. Brockenborough (1862) USS G. W. Blunt (1856) USS Gabilan...
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    Forces Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet Naval Surface Forces Atlantic Expeditionary Strike Group 2 USS Princeton USS Higgins USS John Paul Jones...
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    USS Nimitz (CVN-68). She also was deployed in 1989 as a response to the capture and subsequent murder of U.S. Marine Corps Colonel William R. Higgins...
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    destroyer USS Higgins fired twenty-three Tomahawks from a position in the northern part of the Persian Gulf. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, USS Donald Cook...
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    of navigation operation). In May 2018, the guided missile destroyer USS Higgins navigated within 12 miles of Triton island as part of a FONOP (Freedom...
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