USS Dextrous (MCM-13) is an Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship in the United States Navy.

Mrs. Jacqueline E. Schafer, the Assistant SECNAV for Installations and Environment, served as sponsor of the ship.

In the decades since arriving in Bahrain, USS Dextrous has conducted dozens of critical exercises and real world operations in support of contingency planning and mine clearing within the Persian Gulf, to include earning a Combat Action Ribbon for her work during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

She has worked with over a dozen allied and partner nations in support of the MCM mission and remains a major operational asset to U.S Fifth Fleet.

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