Naming Conventions

Posted by Lex, on August 1, 2009

Navy gets it right on the Arleigh Burke class:

On March 23, 2007, then-Secretary of the Navy, Donald C. Winter, announced that the Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer would be the USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109), honoring the late Cpl. Jason L. Dunham, the first Marine awarded the Medal of Honor for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cpl. Dunham was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for heroism in Iraq.

Now if we could just do something about those capital ships…

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