USS Jason Dunham explained

USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109) is an in the United States Navy. She is named after US Marine Corps corporal Jason Dunham, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for service in the Iraq War.

Jason Dunham is the 59th destroyer in her class and built by the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine.^[1] She was christened by Corporal Dunham's mother, Debra Dunham, the ship's sponsor and launched on 1 August 2009. Jason Dunham was commissioned on 13 November 2010.

Ship's history

In May 2022, Jason Dunham was homeported out of Naval Station Mayport and a part of Destroyer Squadron 28, along with Carrier Strike Group 8 led by the .^[2]

External links

• • • 17 May 2007 . Kuhl applauds Navy for naming ship after Dunham, Secretary of the Navy will visit Scio to name new Destroyer after Jason Dunham . 20 March 2007 . Office of U.S. Congressman Randy Kuhl, 29th District of New York . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070426002811/http://kuhl.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=60993 . 26 April 2007.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Legacy lives aboard USS Jason Dunham . Gams . PFC Michael T. . 25 March 2010 . Marines Magazine . United States Marine Corps . 1 April 2010 . 11 April 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100411061010/http://marinesmagazine.dodlive.mil/2010/03/25/legacy-lives-aboard-uss-jason-dunham/ . dead .
2. Web site: USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: May 23, 2022. usni.org. 23 May 2022. 2 June 2022.