After reading the USS Peleliu and USS Midway listings on Wikipedia, I got caught up for hours in aimlessly following links to other Navy ships. Ran across the listing for the nuclear submarine USS Minneapolis-St. Paul. Sad to see, it was scheduled for decommissioning just last week in Pearl Harbor. Its ultimate ending, being dismantled for spare parts and scrap.
Minneapolis-St. Paul is scheduled to decommission on 27 September 2007, and was deactivated on June 22, 2007[1]; upon her decommissioning, for the first time since 1934 there will be no commissioned ship in the US Navy named for any city in Minnesota.
A complete listing of the other Navy ships once carrying a Minnesota brand.
Sad to say, Minnesota now goes unrepresented, while the likes of the USS Scranton, USS Boise, and USS Toledo go silently running on. At least we haven't had to put up with a USS Milwaukee since it was decomissioned from oiling duty back in the mid-90s.
I'm not so sure the North Star State should be unilaterally dismantling its first strike capabilities. Especially in light of these recent provocations from that unstable regime across the northwestern border.
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