ARLINGTON, Va. — In a powerful tribute to courage and sacrifice, the U.S. Navy announced Wednesday that one of its next Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers will bear the name USS ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A Medal of Honor recipient with ties to South Carolina is receiving another big honor. Navy Secretary John C. Phelan posted Monday on X that the branch’s next Arleigh ...
The U.S. Navy is adding a new battleship, and its namesake will be a South Carolina war hero. A few days before Thanksgiving 2010 and about a month after his 21st birthday, Lance Corporal Kyle ...
The Navy plans to name a new Arleigh Burke-class destroyer after Cpl. Kyle Carpenter, a former Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor for an act of heroism during vicious fighting in Afghanistan ...
The USS Kyle Carpenter is a guided missile destroyer and is a tribute to the Midland's Marine who threw himself on a grenade during combat.
Then-President Barack Obama presents Marine Cpl. William Kyle Carpenter with the Medal of Honor at the White House on June 19, 2014. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) The United States Navy has contracted a ...
The Navy contracted a new Arleigh Burke-class destroyer that is set to be named after a Marine who received the Medal of Honor for saving a fellow service member's life, Navy Secretary John Phelan ...