Service
This ship was one of several participating in disaster relief after the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami.
USS Cowpens is set to be decommissioned on 31 March 2013. However, Cowpens may be retained under the FY 2012 U.S. Defense of Defense authorization bill.
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“Barnard’s greatest war service ... was the continuance of full-scale instruction in the liberal arts ... It was Barnard’s responsibility to keep alive in the minds of young people the great liberal tradition of the past and the study of philosophy, of history, of Greek.”
—Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877–1965)
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—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)