Destroyer Squadron 2

Destroyer Squadron 2 is a Destroyer squadron of the United States Navy. It is administratively part of Commander, Naval Surface Forces Atlantic. As of 2012^[update], the following destroyers are assigned to this squadron:USS Forrest Sherman (DDG-98), USS James E. Williams (DDG-95), USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81), USS Porter (DDG-78), USS Mahan (DDG-72), USS Mitscher (DDG-57), and USS Laboon (DDG-58). Destroyer Squadron 2 is assigned to Carrier Strike Group Twelve.

Following the end of World War I, the U.S. Navy possessed an unprecedented number of destroyers, increased dramatically with the war emergency program ships of the Wickes class destroyer and Clemson class destroyer – known collectively as "flush-deckers" that differed from previous destroyer types that had been distinguished by raised forecastle decks. Destroyer Squadron Two first appeared in the U.S. Fleet organization in the spring of 1919, assigned to the Atlantic Fleet with USS Columbia (C-12) as its flagship. It comprised three destroyer flotillas, each composed of three six-ship divisions.

The U.S. Pacific Fleet organization of 1 August 1919 lists Destroyer Squadron Two as a reserve force, the squadron flag in USS Salem. It consisted of Flotilla Ten, comprising Division 29 (six ships), Division 30 (three ships), and Division 31 (six ships), and Flotilla Eleven, comprising six six-ship divisions (22, 23, 35, 32, 33 and 34), nine of the latter's ships apparently under construction, with names not yet assigned, in that they are listed only by number; some did not have commanding officers ordered to them.

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