Destroyers to be named for MoH recipient, former SECNAV

The two newest destroyers will be named for a highly decorated soldier-turned-senator and a former Navy secretary, the Navy’s top civilian announced Thursday.

DDG 117 will be named the USS Paul Ignatius for the former defense official, who was a Navy secretary and an assistant defense secretary in the Johnson administration.

And the next destroyer built will be named for Daniel Inouye, a Japanese-American who fought in World War II and later received the Medal of Honor for storming a machine gun nest, an attack that cost him his right arm.

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