The only U.S. military vessel recognizing Fort Worth will soon be scrapped.
A decommission ceremony for the USS Fort Worth, a Freedom class littoral combat ship launched into service in September 2012, will be July 29 at Naval Base San Diego, officials said.
“As bittersweet as this moment is, Fort Worth can be proud of the support that the community provided the sailors who served on our ship since her commissioning,” J.R. Labbe, president of the nonprofit USS Fort Worth Support Committee, said in a statement. The committee sends the ship’s sailors care packages and arranges for sailors to visit Fort Worth…