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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“This, indeed, has always been the fate of the few that have professed scepticism, that, when they have done what they can to discredit their senses, they find themselves, after all, under a necessity of trusting to them. Mr. Hume has been so candid as to acknowledge this; and it is no less true of those who have shewn the same candour; for I never heard that any sceptic runs his head against a post, or stepped into a kennel, because he did not believe his eyes.”
—Thomas Reid (1710–1796)