USS Pinckney (DDG 91) returns to Naval Base San Diego after 9-month deployment, during which she saw combat. The ship will get the SPY-6(V)4 (Flight IIA backfit version) radar, and a version of AEGIS Baseline 10. Aug 9, 2026.

USS Pinckney (DDG-91) is an Arleigh Burke-class (Flight IIA) Aegis guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for African American Ship’s Cook First Class William Pinckney (1915–1976),^[1] who received the Navy Cross for his courageous rescue of a fellow crewmember on board the aircraft carrier Enterprise (CV-6) during the Battle of Santa Cruz.

Pinckney was laid down on 16 July 2001 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, at Pascagoula, Mississippi; launched on 26 June 2002; and commissioned on 29 May 2004 at Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme. She is the first Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to be equipped with the AN/SPY-1D(V) Littoral Warfare Radar upgrade, which was fitted to all subsequent Flight IIA Arleigh Burkes.^[2]

As of January 2018, Pinckney is homeported at NS San Diego, and assigned to Destroyer Squadron 23