USS Higgins (DDG-76) is an "Arleigh Burke" class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was commissioned in 1999 and named after William R. Higgins (1945-1990), a United States Marine Corps Colonel who was captured and held hostage in February 1988 by a pro-Iranian group allied with Hezbollah while serving on a United Nations peacekeeping mission (United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, UNTSO) in Lebanon. He was killed in captivity by July 1990.

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