USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109)

The newly commissioned USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109) arrives at its new homeport of Naval Station Norfolk.
Career
Name:	USS Jason Dunham
Namesake:	Corporal Jason L. Dunham[1]
Awarded:	13 September 2002[2]
Builder:	Bath Iron Works[2]
Laid down:	11 April 2008[2]
Launched:	1 August 2009[1]
Sponsored by:	Debra Dunham[3]
Commissioned:	13 November 2010[3]
Homeport:	Norfolk, Virginia[2]
Motto:	Semper Fidelis, Semper Fortis ("Always faithful, always strong")
Status:	in active service, as of 2011[update]
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer[1]
Displacement:	9,200 long tons (9,300 t)[2]
Length:	510 ft (160 m)[2]
Beam:	66 ft (20 m)[2]
Draft:	33 ft (10 m)[2]
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)[2]
Speed:	>30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement:	380 officers and enlisted[2]
Armament:	• 1 × 32 cell, 1 x 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 38 triple torpedo tubes • 1 × Mk. 15 Phalanx CIWS or RIM-116 RAM
Aircraft carried:	2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters

USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named after Corporal Jason L. Dunham USMC, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for service in Iraq.^[1]

Jason Dunham is the 59th destroyer in her class and built by the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine.^[4] She was christened by Corporal Dunham's mother, Debra Dunham, and launched on August 1, 2009.^[1] Jason Dunham was commissioned on 13 November 2010 with Commander M. Scott Sciretta in command.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Navy Christens Newest Arleigh Burke-Class Ship Jason Dunham". Navy News Service. 1 August 2009. http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=47354. Retrieved 4 August 2009. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} "Jason Dunham". Naval Vessel Register. http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/DDG109.htm. Retrieved 4 August 2009. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} "Navy to Commission New Guided-Missile Destroyer Jason Dunham". Navy News Service. 10 November 2010. http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=57131. Retrieved 11 November 2010. 
4. ^ Gams, PFC Michael T. (March 25, 2010). "Legacy lives aboard USS Jason Dunham". Marines Magazine. United States Marine Corps. http://marinesmagazine.dodlive.mil/2010/03/25/legacy-lives-aboard-uss-jason-dunham/. Retrieved 1 April 2010. 

External links

• "USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109)". Destroyer Photo Archive. NavSource Online. http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/01109.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-09. 
• "Kuhl applauds Navy for naming ship after Dunham, Secretary of the Navy will visit Scio to name new Destroyer after Jason Dunham" (Press release). Office of U.S. Congressman Randy Kuhl, 29th District of New York. 20 March 2007. http://kuhl.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=60993. Retrieved 2007-05-17. 
• Official Ship's Site Retrieved 2010-04-09.