From the April 15, 2021, UPI "USS Bonhomme Richard formally decommissioned" by Christen McCurdy.
I wrote about this ship earlier this year as a picture of it was featured on the Paralyzed Veterans of America 2021calendar. But it was badly damaged by a fire that raged for five days back in July 2020.
The fire-damaged USS Bonhomme Richard was formally decommissioned in a ceremony at Navy Base San Diego on Wednesday, April 14.
It was the third ship in the U.S. Navy to bear the name which is a rough French translation of "Good Man Richard" which is derived from Benjamin Franklin's pen name.
The ship's history includes deployments to East Timor in 2000 for peacekeeping as well as offloading Marines and their equipment into Kuwait during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship was commissioned in 1998 and expected to have a service life of 40 years. But then there was that fire.
In November the Navy announced that the vessel was beyond affordable repair and would be decommissioned.
--Cooter
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