WASHINGTON - It took just five months for the Navy to award the Purple Heart to the five servicemen slain in a terrorist attack in Chattanooga last summer.
Getting a Navy ship named in their honor is a bit more complicated and could take a lot longer - possibly years.
Congress members from Tennessee and Georgia formally asked Navy Secretary Ray Mabus last week to name an "appropriate naval vessel" the USS Chattanooga in honor of the five shooting victims.
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