Decommissioning
The Joseph Strauss was decommissioned on 1 February 1990, transferred to Greece on 1 October 1992 and renamed the Formion, for the Athenian Admiral Formion, and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 11 January 1995. Greece decommissioned the Formion on 29 July 2002 and the ship was sold as scrap 19 February 2004.
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