Crew-served weapons qualifications on USS Spruance

Video by Seaman Joseph Sitter

DoD Southern Border 2025

March 28, 2025 | 1:15

PACIFIC OCEAN (March 28, 2025) Sailors from the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111), assigned to Joint Task Force - Southern Border, conduct a crew-served weapons qualifications to maintain proficiency with the M2HB .50-caliber machine gun while underway in the Pacific Ocean, March 28, 2025. U.S. Navy assets are being employed under U.S Northern Command’s maritime homeland defense authorities with a U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment embarked to enable maritime interdiction missions to provide additional military forces and capabilities at the southern border. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Joey Sitter)