6th Fleet Focus: Actions Deserve Reactions

Last Sunday I pondered how the US might respond to all the activity in Georgia with the Russians throwing some intimidation their way. I got my answer today.

The USS Donald Cook, a guided missile destroyer, will make a port call in Batumi, on Georgia’s Black Sea coast, next week, the U.S. embassy in Tbilisi said on August 31.

Several joint training events with the Georgian Coast Guard and the Georgian Navy, involving boarding ships and at-sea exercises, are planned.

The USS Donald Cook, which was involved in Tomahawk strikes on Iraq, is also equipped with two vertical launching systems for Standard missiles, Harpoon missile launchers and torpedoes.

Another U.S. destroyer, Sullivans, made a port call in Batumi in late April, 2007.

Very well done.