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| Name | USS Cowpens |
| Namesake | The Battle of Cowpens |
| Operator |  United States Navy |
| Ordered | 8 January 1986 |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down | 23 December 1987 |
| Launched | 11 March 1989 |
| Commissioned | 9 March 1991 |
| Decommissioned | March 31,2013(scheduled) |
| Homeport | Yokosuka, Japan |
| Motto | list error: <br /> list (help) Victoria Libertatis Vindex (Victory Vindicates Liberty) |
| Status | in active service |
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| Class and type | Ticonderoga-class cruiser |
| Displacement | Approx. 9,600 long tons (9,800 t) full load |
| Length | 567 feet (173 m) |
| Beam | 55 feet (16.8 meters) |
| Draft | 34 feet (10.2 meters) |
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| Speed | 32.5 knots (60 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
| Complement | 30 officers and 300 enlisted |
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| Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS Mk III helicopters. |
USS Cowpens (CG-63) is a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser currently in service with the United States Navy.
The USS Cowpens is currently forward-deployed and is homeported at United States Fleet Activities YokosukainYokosuka, Japan. The USS Cowpens also maintains an on-board active VBSS team to conduct anti-piracy, anti-smuggling, and anti-terrorist operations.
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In 2003, the USS Cowpens became the first United States Navy ship to launch ordnance in the opening stages of the Iraq War, in which she fired 37 Tomahawk cruise missiles.
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The USS Cowpens is named after the Battle of Cowpens, an American victory near Cowpens, South Carolina, in the American Revolution. She was built at the Bath Iron Works in Maine.
On 13 January 2010, the ship's commanding officer, Captain Holly Graf, was relieved of command by Rear Admiral Kevin Donegan, Carrier Strike Group Five Commander following the imposition of non-judicial punishment. The punishment followed an investigation which verified allegations of cruelty and maltreatment toward her crew, and conduct unbecoming an officer — violations of articles 93 and 133 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, by Graf during her tenure as captain of the USS Cowpens. The investigation was initiated after multiple allegations and complaints of physical and verbal abuse were made to Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Navy Inspector General by several members of the crew. Captain Graf was subsequently replaced as the commanding officer by Captain Robert Marin.[1][2][3][4][5] A subsequent Time article revealed that Graf had a history of abusive treatment of subordinates in earlier assignments and that Navy leaders had not acted on previous complaints about her behavior.[6] The US Navy forced Graf into early retirement in 2012, but allowed her to do so at her current rank of Captain and under "honorable circumstances."[7]
This ship was one of several participating in disaster relief after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.[8]
USS Cowpens is set to be decommissioned on March 31, 2013.[9]
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
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