 "Gravely" was commissioned at Wilmington, North Carolina on 20 November 2010.In late August 2013 along with her sister ships , , and , "Gravely" was sent to patrol the eastern Mediterranean Sea in response to rising rumors of an imminent U.S. military intervention in the Syrian civil war.On 28 October 2013, the destroyers "Gravely" and "Ramage " answered a distress call from vessel a carrying immigrants located off the coast of Kalamata, Greece.