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Posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 - 4:12 am:

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SCHEDULE IS PROMULGATED AS FOLLOWS TO FACILITATE FLEET PLANNING EFFORTS
TO CONDUCT A DECOM CONTIUOUS MAINTENANCE AVAILABILTY (CMAV) OR
INACTIVATION AVAILABILITY (INAC):
SHIP NAME INACTIVATION DATE POST DECOM STATUS
USNS HAYES (T-AG 195) 01 OCT 08 FLEET TRAINING (NOTE 1)

USS JUNEAU (LPD 10) 31 OCT 08 OCIR (NOTE 2)

USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) 31 JAN 09
OCIR (NOTE 2)

USS TARAWA (LHA 1) 31 MAR 09 OCIR (NOTE 2)

USNS SATURN (T-AFS 10) 06 APR 09 FLEET TRAINING (NOTE 1)

USNS CONCORD (T-AFS 5) 18 AUG 09 FLEET TRAINING (NOTE 1)

USS NASHVILLE (LPD 13) 30 SEP 09
OCIR (NOTES 2)

NOTE (1): VESSEL IS SCHEDULED FOR USE IN A FLEET
TRAINING EXERCISE.
NOTE (2): VESSEL WILL BE PLACED OUT OF COMMISSION/IN RESERVE.

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Posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 - 5:24 am:

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Seven surface ships are scheduled to leave the fleet before the end of fiscal 2009, according to a fleet-wide message released Tuesday. Also slated to end its career is the Navy’s one-of-a-kind nuclear-powered research submarine, the NR-1.

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Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 7:21 am:

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MILWAUKEE (NNS) -- The Navy's newest ship, the future USS Freedom (LCS 1), will be commissioned Nov. 8 at Veteran's Memorial Park in Milwaukee.

The commissioning date set by Secretary of the Navy, Donald C. Winter, was announced by the commissioning committee Aug. 18 in Milwaukee.

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Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 5:08 am:

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SAN DIEGO — The Navy plans to decommission the amphibious assault ship Tarawa, a 32-year-old amphibious assault ship that helped protect and escort the destroyer Cole after it was badly damaged in a terrorist attack in 2000.

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Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 2:06 am:

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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy's newest attack submarine New Hampshire (SSN 778) will be commissioned Oct. 25 during a 10 a.m., ceremony at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine.

U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg will deliver the ceremony's principal address. The ship's sponsor, Cheryl McGuinness of Portsmouth, N.H., is the widow of Lt. Cmdr. Thomas McGuinness, a veteran Navy pilot and co-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11 which was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center by terrorists Sept. 11, 2001.

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Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 6:04 am:

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KITTERY, Maine — Navy tradition suggests that the spirit of the ship’s sponsor goes to sea with the crew of a ship. So the New Hampshire, an attack submarine commissioned on Saturday, carries with it a spirit of perseverance and determination to move forward.

Cheryl McGuinness, whose husband was a co-pilot aboard a jetliner that crashed into the World Trade Center, gave the command: “Crew of the New Hampshire, come aboard and bring our ship to life.”

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Posted on Saturday, November 1, 2008 - 2:42 am:

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From his folding chair on the pier, L.A. “Archie” Archibeque craned his neck, straining to see the red, white and blue commissioning pennant as it slid down the mast of the amphibious assault ship Juneau.

The retired chief petty officer from Rancho Bernardo was the first enlisted sailor assigned to the ship nearly four decades ago, before it had even left its shipyard in Seattle. He had seen the pennant rise for the first time on a sunny day in 1969. Now he would see it lowered for the final time.

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Posted on Saturday, November 1, 2008 - 3:23 am:

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General Dynamics NASSCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE:GD), has delivered USNS Amelia Earhart (T-AKE 6) to the U.S. Navy. The ship is named in honor of the record-setting aviator.

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Posted on Sunday, November 9, 2008 - 6:58 am:

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MILWAUKEE, Wisc. (NNS) -- The crew of USS Freedom (LCS 1) ushered in a new era in naval warfare, Nov. 8 as the ship was brought to life at Milwaukee's Veterans Park before a crowd of nearly 10,000.

The ship was officially placed in commission by Secretary of the Navy Donald C. Winter, who remarked the Navy was commissioning not just Freedom but a new class of naval war ships.

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Posted on Monday, December 1, 2008 - 3:47 am:

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NORFOLK, Va. — Its oven was actually a toaster taken out of a P-3 Orion. It had no shower, and there were four racks for 11 sailors. The officer in charge slept on the deck behind the conn. And since the Nixon administration, the elite crew of the NR-1 could live on the bottom of the ocean for up to a month at a time.

National Geographic magazine called it “The Navy’s Inner Space Shuttle,” and in many ways, the now retired nuclear-powered, deep-submergence boat capable of 3,000-foot dives was just that.

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Posted on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 5:32 am:

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SAN DIEGO — After 32 years, Tarawa is going to bid farewell to its sailors.

Navy officials on Thursday will retire the amphibious assault ship, which in June returned to its pier at San Diego Naval Base after wrapping up its final operational deployment to the Persian Gulf and Northern Arabian Sea.

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Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 5:56 am:

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The Navy’s newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George H. W. Bush will be commissioned Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, during an 11 a.m. EST ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk, Va.

President George W. Bush will deliver the principal address. Dorothy “Doro” Bush Koch, daughter of the ship’s namesake, is the ship’s sponsor. In the time-honored Navy tradition, she will give the order to "man our ship and bring her to life!"

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Posted on Friday, January 9, 2009 - 5:31 am:

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NORFOLK (NNS) -- Former President George H.W. Bush took an emotional journey into his past with an eye to the future as he toured his namesake aircraft carrier Jan. 8, two days before it's commissioned in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.

The World War II naval aviator took a first tour of a tribute room aboard the Nimitz-class Pre-Commissioning Unit George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) and he addressed hundreds of Sailors in the hangar bay as he stood near a giant bronze statue of him running in flight gear.

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Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 3:33 am:

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NORFOLK, Va. - It's the perfect gift for an old Navy flier: 1,092 feet of flattop.

"What do you give a guy who has been blessed and has just about everything he has ever needed?" asked President George W. Bush from aboard the Navy's newest ship. "Well, an aircraft carrier."

The USS George H.W. Bush, a steel-gray vessel longer than three football fields and built at a cost of $6.2 billion, was commissioned Saturday with its namesake, the 41st president, and other members of the Bush family on hand for the ceremonies at Naval Station Norfolk.

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Posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 - 6:38 am:

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LONG BEACH, Calif. — Escorted by tugboats and heavy security, the Navy’s newest amphibious transport dock, the Green Bay, glided into a berth here Tuesday afternoon, a few days ahead of its official commissioning into the Navy’s fleet.

The 684-foot, 25,000-ton ship, with its distinctive silhouette framed by a pair of covered masts, will be formally commissioned Saturday morning.

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Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 2:24 am:

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LONG BEACH, Calif. (NNS) -- Sailors assigned to USS Green Bay (LPD 20) brought their ship to life during a commissioning ceremony Jan. 24 at the port of Long Beach, Calif.

The Navy commissioned the fourth amphibious transport dock ship of the San Antonio-class to honor the first settlement in Wisconsin, the "city by the bay."

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Posted on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 4:18 am:

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The Coast Guard commissioned its newest patrol boat Monday in St. Petersburg, Fla.

The 87-foot cutter Alligator will join the cutters Nantucket, Ocracoke and Crocodile in the patrol boat fleet at Sector St. Petersburg.

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Posted on Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 4:52 am:

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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy will commission the newest Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer, Stockdale, during an 11:00 a.m. PST ceremony on Saturday, April 18, 2009, in Port Hueneme, Calif.

Designated DDG 106, the new destroyer honors Medal of Honor recipient Vice Adm. James Bond Stockdale (1923-2005), the legendary leader of American prisoners of war (POWs) during the Vietnam War.

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Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 4:35 am:

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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy's newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, Truxtun, will be commissioned Saturday, April 25, during an 11 a.m. EDT ceremony in Charleston, S.C.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead will deliver the ceremony's principal address. Carol Leigh Roelker and Susan Scott Martin, descendants of the ship's namesake, will serve as sponsors of the ship.

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Posted on Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 6:53 am:

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (NNS) -- Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead delivered the principal address at the commissioning of the Navy's 53rd Aleigh Burke-class destroyer, USS Truxtun (DDG 103), April 25.

CNO said the utility and importance of the Arliegh Burke class of guided missile destroyers has been clear in the decision to restart the production line and increase the number of ballistic missile upgrades to the existing DDGs.

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Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 8:07 am:

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The 39-year-old amphibious transport dock Nashville will be held as a “mobilization asset” after being decommissioned Sept. 30, according to a spokesman from Naval Surface Force, Atlantic.

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Posted on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 12:56 am:

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (NNS) -- A decommissioning ceremony was held for Navy Cargo Handling Battalion (NCHB) 9 at Navy Operational Support Center Columbus June 7.

Commissioned in 1984, NCHB 9 celebrated the end of its naval service, providing cargo handling support to expeditionary logistics commands, maritime prepositioned forces and expeditionary air cargo operations.

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Posted on Sunday, August 9, 2009 - 2:21 am:

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CORONADO, Calif. (NNS) -- After 57 years of service, the longest standing helicopter squadron in Navy history, Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 2 (HS-2), became the most recent squadron to transition to the MH-60S Seahawk Helicopter and changed its name to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 12 (HSC-12) during a ceremony on Naval Air Station North Island, Aug. 6.

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