DUU-VALL aboard! Jaguars players visit USS Carney to talk shared experience of being on ‘destroyers’

Three Jacksonville Jaguars players took time between football games to tour the USS Carney, a destroyer based at Naval Station Mayport.

Tight ends Brenton Strange and Nate Boerkircher and Safety Rayuan Lane III, who serves in the Marine Corps Reserves, made a visit Tuesday - a day before Veterans Day.

“Lots of happy sailors walked away with selfies and autographs,” a post on the Facebook page of Naval Station Mayport read. “What a treat leading up to Veterans Day!”

The USS Carney is a guided-missile destroyer that was involved in 2023-2024 in combat-intensive U.S. Navy deployments in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean Sea.

The Jacksonville Jaguars are 6-2 this year, with a game against the Tennessee Titans on Sunday.

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