colspan="2" align="center"| USS Cushing (DD-985) enters Apra Harbor. |
| tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| Career | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| USN Jack |
| aid down: | 2 February 1977 |
| aunched: | 17 June 1978 |
| ommissioned: | 21 September 1979 |
| tatus: | |
| olspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| General Characteristics |
| isplacement: | 8,040 tons (8,168.64 metric tons) |
| ength: | 563 feet (171.6 meters) |
| eam: | 55 feet (16.8 meters) |
| raught: | 36 feet |
| ropulsion: | Four GE LM 2500 Gas Turbines driving two shafts |
| peed: | >30 knots |
| ange: | |
| omplement: | 352 Enlisted, 30 Officers |
| rmament: | 2 5"/54 Mk 45 LWGs, 2 20mm Mk 15 CIWS, NATO SeaSparrow Missle System, Harpoon Missles, Tomahawk Missles, Vetically Launched ASROCs |
| ircraft: | Normal Compliment 2 SH-60B ASW Helicopters from HSL-51 "Warlords", can land all helos up to CH-46 |
| otto: | Non Sibi Sed Patriae ("Not for self but for country") |