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The Navy says that it will decommission a pair of San Diego-based surface warships and a submarine this year, as well as several large support vessels that were built in Barrio Logan by General Dynamics-NASSCO.
The best known of the ships is the USS Lake Erie, a 33-year-old Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser that was scheduled to be decommissioned last year. The Navy extended its service life and dispatched it to the Caribbean Sea, where it is still on patrol. The ship — one of the last “Tico” cruisers in the Navy — is now set to decommission on Sept. 30.
One day earlier, the Navy will decommission the USS Germantown, a 40-year-old Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship that transports and delivers Marines to various parts of the world, notably war zones. The Germantown participated in Operations Desert Shield/Storm and Iraqi Freedom.
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