where is the uss fitzgerald based out of
USS Fitzgerald In early April 2004, it was announced that Fitzgerald would be one of fifteen destroyers and three cruisers that would be deployed to counter ballistic missile threats worldwide. She arrived in Yokosuka, Japan on 30 September 2004, to join the U.S. 7th Fleet after participating in a personnel exchange known as "Super Swap". One-hundred forty sailors from the destroyer O'Brien transferred to Fitzgerald and 95 of Fitzgerald's sailors joined the decommissioning unit for O'Brien. She is now home-ported at Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan, and is part of Destroyer Squadron 15.