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Decommissioned:	2 October 2003
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Motto:	"Efficiency and Valor"

USS Briscoe (DD-977), named for Rear Admiral Robert Pierce Briscoe USN, is a Spruance class destroyer built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula in Mississippi.

USS Briscoe operated out of Norfolk, Virginia during her entire 25 year career. When decommissioned, she was part of Destroyer Squadron 22.

Some highlights of her career include:

- Setting a U.S. record of 275 for most merchant vessel boardings in the North Red Sea in support of U.N. sanctions against Iraq.

- Served as on-scene commander for the rescue of 500 passengers of an Egyptian passenger ferry in the North Red Sea.

- Served in support of Operation Urgent Fury, the liberation of Grenada.

- Served as part of Multi-National Peacekeeping Forces off Lebanon.

- In June, 1999 she was tasked with conducting the at sea burial of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, and sister in law.

- In 1980, won the coveted Battenberg Cup for finest ship in the Atlantic Fleet.

- Her last deployment was in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and fired 25 Tomahawk cruise missiles on targets in Iraq.

- Served in the Arabian Gulf, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Red Sea, and Mediterranean Sea.

External Links

• USS Briscoe webpage (http://www.navysite.de/dd/dd977.htm)

Spruance-class destroyer

Spruance | Paul F. Foster | Kinkaid | Hewitt | Elliot | Arthur W. Radford | Peterson | Caron | David R. Ray | Oldendorf | John Young | Comte de Grasse | O'Brien | Merrill | Briscoe | Stump | Conolly | Moosbrugger | John Hancock | Nicholson | John Rodgers | Leftwich | Cushing | Harry W. Hill | O'Bannon | Thorn | Deyo | Ingersoll | Fife | Fletcher | Hayler

Kidd (Modified Spruance)-class destroyer Kidd | Callaghan | Scott | Chandler

List of destroyers of the United States Navy List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy