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Guided missile destroyer
USS
Thomas G. Kelley
(DDG-140)
is a planned
Arleigh Burke
-class
guided missile destroyer
of the
United States Navy
, the 90th overall for the class.
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She will honor Captain
Thomas G. Kelley
(USN, Ret.), who as a then-
Lieutenant
serving in
Vietnam
, was awarded the
Medal of Honor
"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty". Kelley served in the Navy for 30 years, and after retirement, went on to become Secretary of the Massachusetts Department of Veterans' Services.
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