USS Ross

Commissioned in 1997, the Ross honors Chief Machinist Donald K. Ross, who earned the Medal of Honor at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, by continuing to control vital machinery in the forward dynamo room—incapacitated by flooding and gas twice, he refused to stop until he physically could not go on. The Ross is forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, where she serves as one of the Navy's European ballistic missile defense destroyers, standing watch over the Atlantic and Mediterranean.