The U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS "Spruance" (DDG-111) departs Naval Base San Diego on its maiden deployment to the western Pacific Ocean on 16 October 2013. "Spruance" is of 2013 the latest in the line of "Arleigh Burke"-class destroyers and was named in honor of Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, commander of Task Force 16 at the Battle of Midway in World War II, and leader of many of the pivotal naval battles that won the war in the Pacific.