USS Jason Dunham


USS Jason Dunham is an Aegis guided missile destroyer 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. She was built by the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. 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.
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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 aircraft carrier.
In August 2025, Jason Dunham sailed for Venezuela and the Caribbean Sea. The destroyer was among the warships ordered to the area to combat drug smuggling traffic. On 4 September, in response to the presence of U.S. Navy warships in the region, two Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets conducted a flyover of Jason Dunham, after which Trump gave permission to shoot down Venezuelan planes if they presented a danger to U.S. ships.