ROBERT R INGRAM DDG 149
Ship Name and Designation History
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NAMESAKE - Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Robert Roland Ingram, USN (20 January 1945 -)
Ingram is a retired United States Navy hospital corpsman third class and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the United States' highest military decoration, for heroism during the Vietnam War.
Ingram was born in Clearwater, Florida. He joined the United States Navy from Coral Gables, Florida in September 1963. He completed recruit training and Hospital Corps School in San Diego, California, and the Fleet Marine Force, Field Medical Service School at Camp Pendleton, California. Afterwards, he was assigned to B Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. He was then reassigned and transferred to C Company of the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines.
Ingram was sent with his battalion from Okinawa to Vietnam in July 1965 as a hospital corpsman third class. For his heroism in treating several Marines of C Company while under enemy fire on 8 February 1966, he was awarded the Silver Star. On March 28, during a firefight with North Vietnamese forces in Quang Ngai Province, Republic of Vietnam, Ingram continued to attend to wounded Marines after being seriously wounded by enemy gunfire four times.
Ingram's Medal of Honor was presented to him by President Bill Clinton on 10 July 1998 during a ceremony in the White House, alongside twenty-four of the men he served with in Vietnam. The delay in the award, made more than thirty years after the battle, was attributed to lost paperwork.
HM3 Ingram is authorized to wear the Medal of Honor, the Silver Star Medal, the Purple Heart Medal, the Navy Combat Action Ribbon, the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal w/ FMF Combat Operation Insignia and two bronze stars, the Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation (Gallantry Cross) Medal w/ Palm and Frame, the Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation (Civil Actions) Medal w/ Palm and Frame and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal w/ 1960– device.
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