McCLUNG LSM 1

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

McClung Class Landing Ship Medium Named by SecNav Carlos Del Toro 16 January 2025 Keel Laid - Launched - Christened USS McCLUNG LSM-1 Commissioned Additional information (optional)

 

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Other Information

NAMESAKE - Major Megan M. McClung, USMC (14 April 1972 - 6 December 2006)
        Megan Malia Leilani McClung was born on 14 April 1972, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Mike and Re McClung. She was raised in Orange County, California, and graduated from Mission Viejo High School, Mission Viejo, CA in 1990.
        McClung was commissioned an officer in the Marine Corps in 1995 and served on active duty until 2004, when she entered the Reserves. In 2004, she joined Kellogg, Brown, and Root, an American engineering and construction company and went to Iraq as a private contractor.
        In 2006, she returned to active duty with the Marines and in January 2006, she was deployed to Iraq as a public affairs officer with the I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF). She was promoted to the rank of Major in June. In December 2006, she was in the final month of a year-long deployment to Iraq and was the chief public affairs officer in Al Anbar Province, where she was in charge of embedded journalists. Earlier in the day on 6 December 2006, she had been accompanying Oliver North with his Fox News camera crew in Ramadi. She was escorting Newsweek journalists into downtown Ramadi when a massive improvised explosive device (IED) destroyed her Humvee, instantly killing McClung and the other two occupants, Army Capt. Travis Patriquin and Army Spec. Vincent Pomante III. The Newsweek journalists were not injured.
        McClung was the first female Marine officer to be killed in the Iraq war, as well as the first female graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy to be killed in action. Major Megan McClung was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery on 19 December 2006. Her headstone bears a phrase she coined while training military personnel on how to conduct interviews with the press: "Be Bold. Be Brief. Be Gone."

 

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