{"id":381420,"date":"2025-11-15T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381420\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:02:10","slug":"san-diego-bound-warship-uss-pierre-commissioned-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381420\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego-bound warship USS Pierre commissioned in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USS Pierre, the last Independence-class littoral combat ship the Navy intends to build, was commissioned Saturday at Port Panama City in Florida and will soon sail to San Diego, its permanent home port.<\/p>\n<p>The 418-foot Pierre is a high-speed, shallow draft vessel that the Navy says it will use to operate in near-shore waters to conduct mine countermeasures, anti-submarine warfare, surface warfare and maritime security. It cost nearly $600 million to build.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy has built 19 Independence-class warships, which have proven to be more costly to operate than expected. More than a dozen of these ships are homeported in San Diego, the largest Navy installation site on the West Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The USS Pierre, the last Independence-class littoral combat ship the Navy intends to build, was commissioned Saturday at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":381421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,1370,728,1802,50,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-381420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-military","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115555502924288563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}