USS Gettysburg Back in Norfolk After 5 Months in SOUTHCOM

USS Gettysburg (CG-64) returned to Naval Station Norfolk, Va., on Monday after five months in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility. The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser left Norfolk in October and began operating in the Caribbean around Oct. 31, 2025, according to the USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker. Gettysburg was among the warships deployed to SOUTHCOM in support of Operation Southern Spear, the Trump administration’s effort to reduce illicit narcotics coming into the U.S. Gettysburg was in the Caribbean during the U.S. operation in Venezuela to arrest President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, as well as the