The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen patrols the eastern Pacific Ocean.USS La

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen patrols the eastern Pacific Ocean.

USS Lassen is named after Lt. Clyde Everett Lassen, who earned the Medal of Honor for his courageous rescue of two downed aviators while commander of a search and rescue helicopter in Vietnam.