It wasn't long before Business Insider visited the Barry in late 2012 that the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer sat off Libya, launching 55 Tomahawk cruise missiles to suppress the county's air defense system during Operation Odyssey Dawn.
Senior U.S. officials told NBC News that a strike on Syria, which would include the Barry, could happen as soon as Thursday, August 29, 2013.
When we visited, the ship was preparing for its major five-year inspection before a Mediterranean deployment. None of the crew we spoke with last fall suspected they'd be sailing off Syria's coast right now, contemplating an attack on that country's military units allegedly responsible for an August 21 chemical attack on Syrian citizens. But there they are.
The Navy invited Business Insider for a weekend of tests off the Atlantic in late 2012 onboard the USS Barry. The Navy arrived at 5 a.m. to put us on this water taxi by 7:00.
After an hour of heaving seas and whipping saltwater spray, the 505-foot Arleigh Burke-class destroyer came into sight idling off the Virginia seaboard.
At this point some visiting physicists realized how we'd be getting aboard.
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