Pre-commissioning photo 1995. The USS Stethem was named to honor Petty Officer Robert Dean Stethem, a Seabee and Navy diver who was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star for bravery and heroism as a victim of the terrorist hijacking
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