15 November 2023 SECNAV Announces Future USS Ernest E. Evans (DDG 141) Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Carlos Del Toro announced that a DDG 51 Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer will be named after World War II hero Ernest E. Evans, the first Native American in the Navy to earn the Medal of Honor and one of only two World War II destroyer captains...