USN Decommissions Cowpens in Continuing End of Ticonderoga Class

USS Cowpens, which was instrumental in the fight against terrorism following the 9/11 attacks and the war in Iraq as well as being credited with the deployment of the Tomahawk into combat, was decommissioned at the Naval Base San Diego after 33 years of active duty. The ceremony took place on August 27 as part of the U.S. Navy’s planned retirement of the Ticonderoga Class first designed in the 1970s as guided-missile destroyers but completed as guided-missile cruisers.

Named after the...