USS John Young
- See also USS Young for similarly named ships.
 USS John Young in the Pacific, 1 May 1981 after firing its two 5-inch/54-caliber guns during a gunnery exercise.
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 United States | |
| Name | John Young |
| Namesake | John Young |
| Ordered | 26 January 1972 |
| Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
| Laid down | 17 February 1975 |
| Launched | 6 January 1976 |
| Acquired | 1 May 1978 |
| Commissioned | 20 May 1978 |
| Decommissioned | 30 September 2002 |
| Stricken | 6 November 2002 |
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| Fate | Sunk as a target on 13 April 2004 |
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| Class and type | Template:Sclass- |
| Displacement | Template:Spruance class destroyer displacement |
| Length | Template:Spruance class destroyer length |
| Beam | Template:Spruance class destroyer beam |
| Draft | Template:Spruance class destroyer draft |
| Propulsion | Template:Spruance class destroyer propulsion |
| Speed | Template:Spruance class destroyer speed |
| Range | Template:Spruance class destroyer range |
| Complement | Template:Spruance class destroyer complement |
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| Armament | list error: mixed text and list (help) Template:Spruance class destroyer armament VLS
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| Aircraft carried | Template:Spruance class destroyer aircraft |
USS John Young (DD-973), named for Captain John Young, USN, was a Template:Sclass- of the United States Navy. The ship was built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi.
History
In 1987, John Young deployed off the coast of Iran in support of Operation Earnest Will and participated in Operation Nimble Archer. John Young deployed with Battle Group Echo, which included the aircraft carrier Ranger, battleship Missouri, cruisers Long Beach, Bunker Hill, destroyers Leftwich and Hoel, frigates Curts, Harold E. Holt, Robert E. Peary, Schofield and auxiliaries Shasta, Wichita, Kansas City, Hassayampa.
John Young, following appropriate Congressional notification, became one of eight combat ships that began receiving women as crewmembers in 1994.
As part of a reorganization by the Pacific Fleet's surface ships into six core battle groups and eight destroyer squadrons, with the reorganization scheduled to be completed by 1 October 1995, and homeport changes to be completed within the following, year, John Young was reassigned to Destroyer Squadron 23.
John Young departed San Diego on 9 February 1996 en route to the Persian Gulf for a six-month deployment as part of the Middle East Force (MEF). This deployment was remarkable because a main engineering space was completely gutted and refitted following a major fuel oil leak earlier in the week.
On 28 April 1998, Navy and Coast Guard inspectors aboard John Young boarded a merchant ship thus marking the 10,000th such boarding in support of United Nations sanctions against Iraq. As part of a multinational maritime interception force, operating in the Persian Gulf, the team boarded an Indian flagged dhow in the Persian Gulf to make the milestone boarding. The vessel was empty and permitted to proceed.
John Young departed San Diego on 18 November 1997 en route to the Persian Gulf for a six-month deployment as part of the Middle East Force (MEF).
John Young teamed up with a Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) in late March 2001 for a major drug bust at sea. She was last stationed at San Diego, California.
Fate
John Young was decommissioned on 30 September 2002, and stricken 6 November 2002, laid up at Bremerton, Washington NISMF. On 13 April 2004, John Young was sunk during exercise RIMPAC 04 by a Mark 48 torpedo fired by the submarine Pasadena, which broke her in half.[1]
In popular culture
A video game titled U.S.S. John Young (Battle Stations in North America) was developed by Maitai Entertainment and released in 1990, by Magic Bytes and Innerprise Software, in Europe and North America, respectively.[citation needed]
See also
References
External links
- Naval Vessel Register entry for John Young
- navsource.org: USS John Young
- combatindex.com: USS John Young
- united-states-navy.com: USS John Young
- Yahoo! Newsgroup for former John Young Crewmembers
- Reunion website and info for former John Young Crewmembers
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