USS John Basilone

	USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), lead ship of the class.
History
United States
Name	USS John Basilone
Namesake	USMC Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone
Builder	Bath Iron Works
Status	Authorized
General characteristics
Class and type	Template:Sclass-
Displacement	9,200 long tons (9,300 t)
Length	510 ft (160 m)
Draft	33 ft (10 m)
Propulsion	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
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-inch/62 (127 mm/62), 2 × 25 mm, 4 × 12.7 mm guns; 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes; 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS;
Aircraft carried	2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Aviation facilities	Flight deck, Hangar bay

USS John Basilone (DDG-122) is a planned United States Navy Template:Sclass- Flight IIA guided missile destroyer, the 72nd overall for the class. The ship was named for United States Marine Corps Gunnery sergeant John Basilone (November 4, 1916 – February 19, 1945),^[1], who received the nation's highest military award for valor, the Medal of Honor, for heroism during the Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II. He was the only enlisted Marine to receive both the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross in World War II. He served three years in the United States Army with duty in the Philippines. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1940 and was deployed to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and then to Guadalcanal where he held off 3,000 Japanese troops after his 15-member unit was reduced to two other men. On the first day of the Battle of Iwo Jima, he was killed in action, after which he was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism. He has received many honors including being the namesake for streets, military locations, and two United States Navy destroyers; the other one being the USS Basilone (DD-824).

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