USS McClung

USS McClung is the lead ship of the, a new generation of amphibious warfare vessels being developed for the United States Navy. She will be built at Bollinger Shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

Naming

The ship's name was officially announced by Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro on January 16, 2025. It honors Major Megan M.L. McClung, a 1995 U.S. Naval Academy graduate who was killed by an improvised explosive device in Ramadi, Iraq, on December 6, 2006.