{"id":45237,"date":"2022-09-14T22:29:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T22:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/09\/14\/lcs-coronado-decommissioned-after-less-than-9-years-of-active-service\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:55:19","slug":"lcs-coronado-decommissioned-after-less-than-9-years-of-active-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2022\/09\/14\/lcs-coronado-decommissioned-after-less-than-9-years-of-active-service\/","title":{"rendered":"LCS Coronado decommissioned after less than 9 years of active service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The littoral combat ship Coronado was decommissioned in San Diego Wednesday, less than nine years after the pricey ship entered active service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before receiving its shadow box Wednesday, the Independence-class ship spent its career conducting operations before becoming a test and training ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was commissioned in 2014 and saw its first deployment in 2016, cut short<\/a> after it suffered an engineering casualty and had to return to Hawaii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following year, Coronado\u2019s embarked crew was marooned in Singapore<\/a> after revised LCS training standards left the Navy without a qualified crew to rotate aboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday we recognize the great contribution Coronado and its crew made in developing the operational concepts foundational to the current configuration and deployment of littoral combat ships,\u201d Rear Adm. Wayne Baze, the ceremony\u2019s guest speaker and commander of Expeditionary Strike Group 3 said, according to a Navy release announcing the decommissioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\t