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What To Know Images by the ESA’s Sentinel-2 satellites shows the and her Arleigh Burke-class destroyer escort heading westward after being spotted off the coast of Grenada over the past few days.
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Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
More than 50,000 recruits a year learned naval procedures on this model of a destroyer escort.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2025
There had been a USS Miller, a destroyer escort, but it was decommissioned in 1991.
—Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Two of the aircraft carrier's destroyer escorts, USS Jason Dunham and USS Stout, were later sent to the Barents Sea, which is Russia's Arctic doorstep, for maritime operations.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
Stickleback had just finished a simulated torpedo attack on the destroyer escort USS Silverstein when the sub lost all power and began an uncontrolled dive.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 July 2023
Bullitt did manage to commandeer an American cruiser and destroyer escorts to convey 650 tons of French and Belgian gold reserves abroad from Bordeaux.
—Sam Roberts, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2015
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Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
More than 50,000 recruits a year learned naval procedures on this model of a destroyer escort.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2025
There had been a USS Miller, a destroyer escort, but it was decommissioned in 1991.
—Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Two of the aircraft carrier's destroyer escorts, USS Jason Dunham and USS Stout, were later sent to the Barents Sea, which is Russia's Arctic doorstep, for maritime operations.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
Stickleback had just finished a simulated torpedo attack on the destroyer escort USS Silverstein when the sub lost all power and began an uncontrolled dive.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 July 2023
Bullitt did manage to commandeer an American cruiser and destroyer escorts to convey 650 tons of French and Belgian gold reserves abroad from Bordeaux.
—Sam Roberts, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2015
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“Destroyer escort.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/destroyer%20escort. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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