USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109)

USS Jason Dunham

USS Jason Dunham sailing through Virginian waters in August 2015.
History
United States
Name:	USS Jason Dunham
Namesake:	Corporal Jason Dunham
Awarded:	13 September 2002
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Laid down:	11 April 2008
Launched:	1 August 2009
Sponsored by:	Debra Dunham
Commissioned:	13 November 2010
Homeport:	Norfolk, Virginia
Motto:	Semper Fidelis, Semper Fortis ("Always faithful, always strong")
Status:	in active service
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement:	9,200 long tons (9,300 t)
Length:	510 ft (160 m)
Beam:	66 ft (20 m)
Draft:	33 ft (10 m)
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Speed:	>30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement:	380 officers and enlisted
Armament:	1 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 × RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 × 5/62 in (127/62 mm), 2 × 25 mm, 4 × 12.7 mm guns 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes 1 × 20mm Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried:	MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopters

USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named after U.S. 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. She was christened by Corporal Dunham's mother, Debra Dunham, and launched on 1 August 2009.Jason Dunham was commissioned on 13 November 2010 with Commander M. Scott Sciretta in command.