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USS Gyatt: The Original “Gyatt” That Set Navy Hearts Racing As The World’s First Guided Missile Destroyer

Before “Gyatt” was Gen Z slang, it was a game-changing missile destroyer. Meet the USS Gyatt, the Navy’s original trendsetter.
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Montana class (BB-6771) model on display, October 1944. (US Navy)

Montana-Class Battleships Would Have Dwarfed Today’s Navy
Marines tossing confiscated Iraqi assault rifles onto a file to burn. (National Archives/Wikimedia Commons)

SOFREP Pic of the Day: Marines Toss Tabuk Rifles Into Fire, 2003

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US Soldiers during the war of 1812: Image Credit: US Army Center of Military History

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Revolutionary War-era firearms. (FBI)

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Dr. Eleanor Ardel Vietti (Image source: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency)

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