Trump's Pentagon keeps sending destroyers that fought in the Red Sea to the US southern border — a fourth one is on its way

USS Cole becomes the latest destroyer to be deployed to the southern border mission.

US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Emily Farnsworth

• The Defense Department is sending another destroyer, USS Cole, to the southern border mission.
• Cole is the latest destroyer to go from the Red Sea conflict to America's backyard.
• The warship is one of the many military assets the White House has sent to the US-Mexico border.

A fourth US Navy destroyer that participated in the...