Canley, who saved more than 20 of his brethren during the Vietnam War, was the first living Black Marine to receive the award
In February 1968, during a particularly vicious moment in the Vietnam War, a virtually unknown Marine from Camp Pendleton did the unthinkable as enemy forces turned their guns his way.
Decades later, Canley was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroics, becoming the first living Black Marine to receive the highest medal the nation gives for extraordinary acts of bravery. The Navy originally intended a similar but more modest role for ESB’s, which are about 2.5 times the length of a football field and weigh about 100,000 tons. But the ships have since been cleared to more fully participate in armed conflict.
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