Decommissioning and Fate
The ship was decommissioned on 28 October 2005. She was sunk off the coast of Hawaii as part of RIMPAC '06 exercises on 13 July 2006.
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“‘Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)