131001-N-WX059-022 PEARL HARBOR (Oct. 1, 2013) The guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) returns to its homeport at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam after a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sean Furey/Released)
Chung-Hoon was named in honor of Rear Admiral Gordon Pai’ea Chung-Hoon (1910–1979), recipient of the Navy Cross and the Silver Star.
The contract to build her was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems on 6 March 1998, and her keel was laid down on 14 January 2002, at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Incorporated. She was launched on 11 January 2003, sponsored by Michelle Punana Chung-Hoon of Honolulu, Hawaii, Chung-Hoon’s niece, and commissioned on 18 September 2004.[1]
She is part of the Pacific Fleet and homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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