The ship Dr. Dunn is brought to is the U.S.S. Daniel Inouye (DDG-118), an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. Commissioned on December 8, 2021 she is one of the U.S. Navy's newest destroyers, and is named after Daniel Inouye, a U.S. Senator from Hawaii who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War II. At the time he was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, in April of 1945 Inouye was leading an assault against the final battalion of German forces in Italy. Lt. Inouye's unit was trying to take out a series of German machine gun emplacements on a ridge, when approaching the first nest Inouye was struck twice in the chest with machine gun fire, thankfully he was unharmed due to being at far range and thanks to the two dollar coins he carried in his breast pocket, he deemed them his lucky charms and carried them every day of his life since. Inouye and his unit were attempting to flank the nest when he was shot in the stomach from a distance of about 40 yards. Ignoring his wound he lead his unit as they took out two machine gun nests, the third nest proved more difficult, while his unit was distracting the gunner a wounded Inouye crawled to get closer to the bunker. When he was only 10 yards away Inouye prepared to throw a grenade into the nest, but he was spotted by one of the German soldiers who fired a 30mm antipersonnel rifle grenade at Inouye. The grenade struck him in the right elbow, it was a dud and did not detonate, but it struck with such force that it effectively amputated his right arm at the elbow, this happened just seconds after Inouye pulled the pin from the grenade in his right hand, leaving a live grenade lying at his feet. The muscles in the severed arm contracted around the grenade, known as a "death grip", preventing the hand from releasing it. This left him crippled, in terrible pain, under fire with minimal cover and staring at a live grenade "clenched in a fist that suddenly didn't belong to me anymore." His unit moved to help Inouye, but he ordered them to stay back, fearing the fist would release the live and armed grenade at any second. As the German solider in the nest was reloading his rifle with standard ammunition to finish Inouye off he dove forward and used his left hand to pry the grenade out of his severed right hand, and threw it into the nest killing most the German's inside. One of the German's in the bunker was still in fighting condition, despite being seriously injured and loosing blood, Inouye drew his sidearm with his left hand and charged into the bunker, the final German in the bunker fired at Inouye hitting him in the leg, Inouye returned fire killing the German before finally collapsing. Following his recovery and the end of the war Inouye was honorably discharged from the Army with the rank of captain, over the course of the war he was awarded the Bronze Star, three Purple Hearts, and for his heroic actions in Italy he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest award in the U.S. military. Many of the soldiers in his regiment felt his actions merited being awarded the Medal of Honor, but believed he wasn't given the award because he was Japanese-American. That mistake was finally rectified when President Bill Clinton awarded Inouye with the Medal of Honor on June 21, 2000, along with 19 other Japanese-American servicemen who's actions during the war merited the award but were denied it due to their race.