USS Benfold
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USS Benfold is a Flight I Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is a multi-mission platform capable of anti-aircraft warfare with the Aegis Combat System suite and anti-aircraft
Port bow view of USS Benfold (DDG-65) underway in the South Pacific Ocean.
Benfold launches a Standard Missile (SM) 6 during the coordinated multi-domain, multi-axis, long-range maritime strikes against Ex-USS Vandegrift as part of Valiant Shield 2022 (VS 22).
Benfold conducts routine underway operations in the Philippine Sea, 24 June 2022.
Change of command ceremony in front of Benfold's main gun, 2012
Edward Clyde Benfold
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Edward Clyde Benfold was a United States Navy hospital corpsman third class who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor while attached to a Marine Corps rifle company during the Battle of Bunker H
USS Benfold
…Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers. Named for posthumous Korean War United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient Hospital Corpsman Third Class Edward Clyde Benfold, she joined the U.S. Pacific Fleet for service on 30 March 1996. Equipped with the Aegis air-defense system and the Mark-41 Vertical Launch System for…
Edward C. Benfold