USS Briscoe (DD-977) - Highlights

Highlights

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 United Nations 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 1999, she was tasked with conducting the at-sea burial of John F. Kennedy, Jr.

• In 1980, she won the Battenberg Cup for finest ship in the U.S. 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 Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Red Sea, and Mediterranean.