Commissioned in 1998, the McFaul honors Master Chief Engineman Donald L. McFaul, a Navy SEAL who was killed in combat during Operation Just Cause in Panama in December 1989—one of the senior enlisted SEALs killed in the assault on the Presidente Porras. McFaul was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. The McFaul carries forward the warrior ethos that defined his service and the SEAL community's standard of excellence.