Secretary Mabus Names Destroyer after Pioneering United States Navy Nu

During a ceremony to honor women who served in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in Arlington, Virginia, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced an Arleigh-Burke class destroyer, DDG 123, will be named Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee in honor of the pioneering U. S. Navy chief nurse, who served as the superintendent of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps during World War I and was the first female recipient of the Navy Cross.