The carrier also served in Vietnam, supported NATO in the 1950s ... will serve our Navy and our nation proudly as the former USS Intrepid did and continues to do, and we couldn't be more thrilled ...

Robert Kerrey led Navy SEAL teams in Vietnam and was later elected governor of Nebraska and then to the U.S. senate for a dozen years.

USS Intrepid (DDG-145) and USS Robert Kerrey (DDG-146) will be respectively the 95th and ...

“This will be the first Navy vessel named in his [Kerrey’s] honor, and it is most appropriate we do so, for his actions in Vietnam and ... Toro named the future USS Intrepid aboard the former ...

Additionally, Del Toro announced the name of the destroyer that will follow Intrepid. DDG 146 will be called USS Robert Kerry ... heroism displayed during the Vietnam War.