USS Michael Murphy is the 62nd ship of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. She is named for Medal of Honor recipient Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy. Murphy was posthumously awarded the Medal of honor for his actions during Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan in June 2005.
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USS Michael Murphy is the 62nd ship of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. She is named for Medal of Honor recipient Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy. Murphy was posthumously awarded the Medal of honor for his actions during Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan in June 2005. The ship was christened on 7 May 2011, Murphy’s birthday, by her sponsor Maureen Murphy, Michael Murphy’s mother. On 28 February, the Royal Canadian Navy ship HMCS Protecteur suffered a fire and breakdown approximately 340 nautical miles northeast of Pearl Harbor. Michael Murphy, already underway, was immediately dispatched to assist in towing and recovery efforts.
In January 2017, the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group accompanied USS Carl Vinson in a deployment to the western Pacific. In April of that year, the U.S. Navy cancelled a scheduled port call in Australia in response to increasing tensions between the United States and North Korea over the DPRK’s nuclear weapons program. In July 2018, the commanding officer of the Royal Australian Navy, Cmdr Christopher J. Forch, relieved Cdr Kevin Louis as commanding officer.
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