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What is the ship decommissioning process?
Does anyone know what the decommissioning process is? Will they stay active right up until the day they pull into a US port for scrapping, or do they return early to start stripping her before the decom ceremony? And for a Pacific fleet ship, where do they usually do it?
I really don't know anything about the decom process. Any information is helpful.
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Permalink Reply by Arwen on
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What kind of timeline are we talking about here? For example, if the decommissioning ceremony is scheduled for, say, July 2013, when does the ship end its regular operations? How early is the non-decommissioning crew reassigned?
Now my curiosity is getting the best of me, LOL. Chris is still worrying about getting to his ship, and here I am looking 2-3 years down the road.
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I was just reading that they did the decommissioning of the USS Los Angeles in Los Angeles, CA. Somehow I doubt the USS Denver will be making the trip up the Mississippi/ Missouri/Platte rivers to decommission in Denver, CO. She might not fit, LOL.
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Permalink Reply by jrussell on
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Arwen, did you ever get any info on this? My son just got to the Denver today. Do you know how often he will be able to communicate home? Internet, calls, etc?
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Chris has been on the Denver for about two weeks now, and I haven't heard a peep. He's probably just swamped with learning his new job, schedule, etc. Heck, the showers alone would be enough to send him into deep shock (he considers 20 minutes to be a "quick" shower).
I haven't yet learned more about the whole process, timing-wise. I'm not-so-secretly hoping the Denver is sent to San Francisco to begin the process to join the mothball fleet in late 2012 for an early 2013 decommissioning. That way he would be close to family (our whole family lives in the area).
It would be very cool if he could be on the decommissioning crew, because he grew up in the Denver area. We only moved to Oregon after he graduated from high school. It would be kinda special for a Colorado-grown sailor to be there for the ceremony.
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