{"id":7320,"date":"2025-06-26T17:33:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/columbia-native-supports-navy-operations-aboard-uss-john-finn\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T17:33:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:33:46","slug":"columbia-native-supports-navy-operations-aboard-uss-john-finn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/columbia-native-supports-navy-operations-aboard-uss-john-finn\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Native Supports Navy Operations Aboard USS John Finn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"67\" data-end=\"313\">SAGAMI WAN, Japan &ndash; Boatswain&#8217;s Mate 3rd Class Tywane Davis, a Columbia, South Carolina native, recently played a key role during a small boat operation aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer <em data-start=\"276\" data-end=\"291\">USS John Finn<\/em> (DDG 113) on June 23.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"315\" data-end=\"695\">Davis was photographed establishing communication with the bridge as part of routine operations while the ship was underway in Sagami Wan. <em data-start=\"454\" data-end=\"469\">USS John Finn<\/em> is forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations and assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15 &mdash; the Navy&rsquo;s largest destroyer squadron and a key component of the fleet&rsquo;s surface forces in the Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"697\" data-end=\"787\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">(Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy \/ Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Alexandria Esteban)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAGAMI WAN, Japan &ndash; Boatswain&#8217;s Mate 3rd Class Tywane Davis, a Columbia, South Carolina native, recently played a key role during a small boat operation aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John Finn (DDG 113) on June 23. Davis was photographed establishing communication with the bridge as part of<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/columbia-native-supports-navy-operations-aboard-uss-john-finn\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40],"tags":[286],"class_list":["entry","author-john-griggs","post-7320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-military","tag-us-navy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gpstrianglenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Boatswains-Mate-3rd-Class-Tywane-Davis_2025_630x350.jpg?fit=630%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}