The ship completed one of the longest deployments of the US Seventh Fleet area of operations to date, with 16 months at sea and more than 15,000 nautical miles traveled in the Western Pacific.
Fort Worth also conducted experimentation with the first LCS anti-submarine warfare module. After returning to her homeport of San Diego, she once again served as a training platform.
After the decommissioning and inactivation, the ship will be towed to the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, in Bremerton, Washington, where she will be placed in a dismantle status.
Fort Worth is the sixth Freedom-class LCS to be decommissioned. Ten ships of the class remain in US Navy service.