She completed her fitting out and work-ups, then deployed to the Mediterranean Sea in late May 1989, returning in November. While San Jacinto and her sister shipLeyte Gulf were underway off the Virginia coast, performing testing of CEC, the Iraqi army invaded and occupied Kuwait. The next day, Leyte Gulf detached and headed back to Mayport, Florida. The day after, San Jacinto returned to her homeport of Norfolk, Virginia, to prepare for the massive armada to the Middle East.[citation needed]
After CINCLANT had all their ships provisioned, barely five days later, San Jacinto headed for the Mediterranean. Other ships in the battle group included the cruiser Philippine Sea and the aircraft carriers America and John F. Kennedy.[citation needed]
During her 2000-2001 deployment with Carrier Group Two, she deployed with Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron Light 42 (HSL-42) Det 8 with two SH-60B Seahawks.[3][4]
On 26 May 2010, San Jacinto's VBSS team rescued five Yemenis hostages from 13 suspected pirates. The master stated his dhow had been under pirate control for one day only. The VBSS team detained the pirates on the dhow without conflict.[5]
On 13 October 2012, San Jacinto was involved in a collision with U.S. nuclear submarine Montpelier off the coast of northeastern Florida.[6] The cruiser suffered damage to her sonar dome.[7] Due to the emergency dry docking, San Jacinto was unable to join Carrier Strike Group Ten and aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman deployment to the Persian Gulf.[8] The cruiser has undergone approximately $11 million in repairs since the accident.[9]
In 2020, San Jacinto and USSDwight D. Eisenhower(CVN-69), while on deployment together, became the first U.S. Navy ships to exceed 160 consecutive days at sea.[10] Later in 2020, San Jacinto was deployed to Cape Verde as a deterrent to any attempts to aid Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab in fleeing the island prior to being extradicted to the U.S. on money-laundering charges.[11]
In December 2020 the U.S. Navy's Report to Congress on the Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels stated their intention to decommission the ship in Fiscal Year 2022.[12] The Navy formally asked Congress for permission to decommission the ship in the FY2022 budget in July 2021 along with six other cruisers,[13] but Congress only allowed the Navy to retire five cruisers,[14] and the Navy chose to retain San Jacinto. The Navy again asked Congress for permission to retire the ship in the 2023 budget request,[15] and as of June 2022 the budget is still being debated.
San Jacinto was decommissioned on 15 September 2023 in a ceremony at her homeport Naval Station Norfolk.[17]San Jacinto will be inactivated and towed to the Navy’s Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where they will be in a Logistic Support Asset (LSA) status.
↑ Curtis A. Utz and Mark L. Evans (July–August 2002). "The Year in Review 2003, Part 2"(PDF). Naval Aviation News. Washington, DC: U.S. Navy. p.43. Archived from the original(PDF) on 6 November 2004. Retrieved 22 August 2010. LAMPS MK III Major Ship Deployments, 2001
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