{"id":788680,"date":"2026-05-11T12:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788680\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:05:25","slug":"jacksonville-navy-ship-uss-cooperstown-deploys-amid-rising-middle-east-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788680\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Navy ship USS Cooperstown deploys amid rising Middle East tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>NAVAL STATION MAYPORT, Fla. <\/strong> \u2013 The USS Cooperstown is departing Naval Station Mayport Monday morning, joining a growing list of Jacksonville-based ships currently supporting operations overseas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The destination and expected duration of the deployment have not been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The USS Cooperstown\u2019s departure follows recent deployments of two other Mayport-based ships \u2014 the USS Mason and the USS Donald Cook \u2014 which left port back in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/05\/uss-mason-among-2-navy-destroyers-that-transited-strait-of-hormuz-after-iranian-barrage-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/05\/uss-mason-among-2-navy-destroyers-that-transited-strait-of-hormuz-after-iranian-barrage-report\/\">The USS Mason made headlines just days before the USS Cooperstown\u2019s departure after navigating the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>. The ship was among two Navy destroyers that entered the Persian Gulf after encountering what the U.S. military described as an Iranian barrage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">News4JAX spoke with retired Navy Commander Richard Kolko about the capabilities of the ships and the sailors aboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWell, they go to general quarters and they have to be prepared for every threat again, and as we\u2019ve seen, the threat can be air-based, surface-based, and they\u2019re aware and they\u2019ve got their defensive systems up and running at all times. It is stressful. It is tiring,\u201d Kolko said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Families and friends gathered at Naval Station Mayport on Monday morning to say goodbye to the crew of the USS Cooperstown. At this time, details about the ship\u2019s mission and timeline remain undisclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAVAL STATION MAYPORT, Fla. \u2013 The USS Cooperstown is departing Naval Station Mayport Monday morning, joining a growing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":788681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,12013,5502,322281,67,586,132,5230,68,322279,2969,322282,322280],"class_list":{"0":"post-788680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-morning-show","13":"tag-navy","14":"tag-navy-ship-deployment","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-us-navy-destroyers","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-uss-cooperstown","23":"tag-uss-mason-strait-of-hormuz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}