She was commissioned in July 1980 and was deployed mainly in the western and southern Pacific, but also voyaged to the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf. She was the second ship in the U.S. Navy to bear this name but the first to be named after Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher. After her decommissioning in 2004, she was sunk in a torpedo test exercise in 2008.>
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The last remaining Spruance Class ship, the USS Paul F. Foster, is currently an automated test ship out of Port Huneme, CA. She is due for decommissioning next year, 2023. I would like to propose that, rather than being sunk or scrapped, as the last Spruance Destroyer still afloat, that she should be turned into a museum. It would be shameful if the Spruance Class in its entirety would be relegated to the memory of the officers and crew that served on them.
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DeleteI agree it would be sad.
DeleteCan’t see the Navy letting her go to a museum.
ReplyDeleteEven though I am ex New Zealand navy I still have a feeling of sadness when a ship is either broken up or sunk as a target
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