The USS Gravely departed from Yorktown on Saturday with a U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment to assist with border security along the Gulf Coast.

The USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer previously involved in combat operations in the Middle East, has been deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border

Navy warship USS Gravely is on a mission to strengthen security at the U.S.-Mexico border, Pentagon officials said. Why it matters: The deployment of the guided-missile destroyer that last year was involved in shooting down Iran-backed Houthi rebels' ship attacks in the Middle East to a region the U.