NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Va. — The guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely returned to Naval Station Norfolk on Dec. 13 after spending about four months supporting missions for U.S. Southern Command, the Navy said.

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer completed a deployment that included operations in the Gulf of America and the Caribbean Sea, where the ship supported maritime security and defense efforts in the Western Hemisphere.

“Team Gravely takes pride in our continued service to maritime homeland defense,” Cmdr. Greg Piorun, the ship’s commanding officer, said in a statement. “This team has worked hard in the precision execution of a wide variety of missions aimed to underpin American security and economic prosperity in the Western Hemisphere.”

Gravely deployed from March through June in

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