USS Delbert D. Black

PCU Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) is a future of the United States Navy. She is named to honor the legendary master chief, who died in 2000. Delbert Black is remembered for establishing the role of the Navy's enlisted leader, and the ship naming is the culmination of a decade of advocacy by MCPONs to honor him with a combatant ship, believed to be the first time in many decades that a ship has been named for an enlisted person's superior performance and impact, rather than valor or personal sacrifice. Delbert Black will be the 4th of 8 planned Flight IIA "technology insertion" ships, which will contain elements of the Flight III ships projected to begin with DDG-124.