US Navy Honors Marine Hero as It Commissions Pacific Fleet’s Newest Destroyer in Tampa

The vessel is ’the most capable surface combatant ever built,' Adm. Daryl Caudle, commander of US Fleet Forces Command, announces at the ceremony.

The USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125) during her commissioning ceremony in Tampa, Fla., on Oct. 7, 2023. T.J. Muscaro/The Epoch Times

TAMPA, Fla.— “Indestructible.”

That’s the nickname given to the U.S. Navy’s newest warship, the USS Jack H. Lucas, a guided-missile destroyer that was commissioned on Oct. 7 at the Port of Tampa.