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A decade after terrorists killed Officer Robert D. Stethem, the Navy commissioned a guided-missile destroyer in his name Saturday at a ceremony attended by thousands.
The USS Stethem is the first U.S. Navy ship named after an enlisted man. Stethem, a 23-year-old petty officer and Seabee diver, was killed by Arab terrorists during the hijacking of a TWA airliner to Beirut in 1985.
