USS Curts (FFG-38) , aka 38 Special returns...

   The USS Curts (FFG-38) returned to San Diego after a six month deployment tracking down drug runners. She will be decommissioned in February 2013 after an illustrious carreer. Well done 38 Special!

  

                                             

Namesake:	Admiral Maurice Curts
Ordered:	27 April 1979
Builder:	Todd Pacific Shipyards, San Pedro,California
Laid down:	1 July 1981
Launched:	6 March 1982
Acquired:	2 September 1983
Commissioned:	8 October 1983
Decommissioned:	27 February 2013(scheduled)
Homeport:	Naval Base San Diego
Fate:	Naval Reserve Force, Active
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Rudy, Rudy, Rudy...

Affectionately known as Rudy, he is an extremely photogenic Scottie...