manned, trained, equipped and maintained in accordance with Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic policies and direction. The squadron was to serve as the Immediate Superior in Command for USS Carney, USS Sullivans, USS Roosevelt, USS Simpson, USS Tornado, USS Zephyr, and USS Shamal. Destroyer Squadron 15/Commander, Task Force 71 (Pacific) A permanently Forward Deployed DESTROYER Squadron, and SEVENTH Fleet Theater Surface Warfare Commander forward deployed from Yokosuka, Japan. Consists of USS Barry (DDG-52), , , , , , , . Destroyer Squadron 17 (Pacific): flagship USS Coontz (DDG-40) in 1962. With Cruiser-Destroyer Group Five in the 1990s. Destroyer Squadron 18 (Atlantic): Destroyer Squadron 18 was first established May 28, 1943, when Commander William K. Mendenhall, Jr. broke his pennant in USS Frankford (DD-497) at the Destroyer Base in San Diego, California. The squadron was composed of nine ships. Destroyer Squadron 18 shifted to the east coast via the Panama Canal and commenced convoy escort duties between the United States and Europe. USS Ammen (DD-527) joined the squadron in the spring of 1952 in the Atlantic after reconditioning. USS Sampson (DDG-10) joined Destroyer Squadron 18 and Destroyer Division 182 (DesDiv 182) in July 1962. Destroyer Squadron 18 was reestablished on September 1, 1995, having been previously disestablished in 1973. Commander, Destroyer Squadron 18 was assigned to the Battle Group and served as Commander Task Force 60/Battle Force Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea and Adriatic Sea. April 2000 showed the departure of USS Klakring (FFG 42) transferred to Destroyer Squadron Fourteen in Mayport FL. But another warship USS McFaul (DDG-74) came soon after. Destroyer Squadron 20: USS Taylor (DD-468), a began her naval career with the Atlantic Fleet in 1942. Assigned to Destroyer Squadron 20, she trained at Casco Bay, Maine, and made her shakedown cruise in the northern Atlantic before beginning duty as a coastwise convoy escort. The latter duty lasted until mid-November when she escorted a transatlantic convoy to a point just off Casablanca. Destroyer Squadron 21 (Pacific): The squadron's history began on 1 March 1943, when the first ships of the then-new Fletcher-class destroyers, having been deployed to Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands were grouped into Destroyer Squadron 21, part of Vice Admiral William F. Halsey's South Pacific Area. The squadron was disestablished after the war on 31 December 1945 but was reformed from Destroyer Squadron 18 at a later date. Destroyer Squadron 22 () 2010 composition included: