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US Navy - Amphibious Transport Dock
LPD 22 - USS San Diego
 
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Type, class: Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD); San Antonio class
 

Builder:
Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Ingalls Operations, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA
(now a part of Huntington Ingalls Industries)

  
STATUS:
Awarded: June 1, 2006
Laid down: May 23, 2007
Launched: May 7, 2010
Christened: June 12, 2010

Commissioned: May 19, 2012
IN SERVICE
 

Homeport: Naval Base San Diego, California
 Namesake: City of San Diego
Ships Motto: SEMPER VIGILANS (always vigilant)
Technical Data: see: INFO > San Antonio class Amphibious Transport Dock - LPD
 
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Mark IV patrol boat enters the well deck - Pacific Ocean - March 2018

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Pacific Ocean - January 2018

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Pacific Ocean - January 2018

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Pacific Ocean - January 2018

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Pacific Ocean - January 2018

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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - January 2018

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Naval Base Guam (Apra Harbor) - January 2018

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Naval Base Guam (Apra Harbor) - January 2018

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Naval Base Guam (Apra Harbor) - January 2018

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5th Fleet AOR - December 2017

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Aqaba, Jordan - December 2017

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Souda Bay, Crete, Greece - December 2017

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AH-1Z Viper helicopter on the flight deck - Mediterranean Sea - November 2017

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Marines launching a RQ-21A Blackjack UAV from the flight deck - Pacific Ocean - July 2017

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Marines assigned to VMM-161 launching a RQ-21A Blackjack UAV from the flight deck - Pacific Ocean - May 2017

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Pacific Ocean - April 2017

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Port Hueneme, California - January 2017

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Port Hueneme, California - January 2017

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Pacific Ocean - October 2016

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U.S. Navy Divers assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 3 and Mobile Dive and Salvage Company 3-1 prepare to tow a test capsule known
as the boilerplate-testing article, belonging to NASA's Orion program, to the amphibious transport dock USS San Diego (LPD 22) in the Pacific Ocean.
The ship is conducting recovery operations with NASA's Orion program - Pacific Ocean - October 2016

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U.S. Navy Divers assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 3 and Mobile Dive and Salvage Company 3-1 prepare to tow a test capsule known
as the boilerplate-testing article, belonging to NASA's Orion program, to the amphibious transport dock USS San Diego (LPD 22) in the Pacific Ocean.
The ship is conducting recovery operations with NASA's Orion program - Pacific Ocean - October 2016

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Sailors assigned to the amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego (LPD 22) work with NASA personnel to assess towing techniques for the
testing capsule called a boilerplate-testing article (BTA), belonging to NASA's Orion program, in the Pacific Ocean - Pacific Ocean - October 2016

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San Diego, California - September 2016

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San Diego, California - February 2015

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Gulf of Aden - November 2014

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Red Sea - October 2014

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Red Sea - October 2014

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Pacific Ocean - March 2014

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USS San Diego is conducting an underway recovery test for NASA's Orion crew module - Pacific Ocean - February 2014

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USS San Diego is conducting an underway recovery test for NASA's Orion crew module - Pacific Ocean - February 2014

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USS San Diego is conducting an underway recovery test for NASA's Orion crew module - Pacific Ocean - February 2014

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Pacific Ocean - February 2014

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Pacific Ocean - February 2014

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Pacific Ocean - February 2014

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Pacific Ocean - February 2014

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Pacific Ocean - February 2014

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Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV) prepare to depart the well deck - Pacific Ocean - July 2013

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well deck operations - Pacific Ocean - July 2013

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well deck operations - Pacific Ocean - July 2013

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flooding the well deck - Pacific Ocean - December 2012

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San Diego, California - December 2012

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San Diego, California - July 2012

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commissioning ceremony - San Diego, California - May 19, 2012

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arriving for the upcoming commissioning ceremony - San Diego, California - May 14, 2012

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arriving for the upcoming commissioning ceremony - San Diego, California - May 14, 2012

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San Diego, California - April 2012

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San Diego, California - April 2012

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Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - March 2012

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Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - March 2012

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christening ceremony - June 12, 2010

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Pascagoula, Mississippi - May 2010 (Huntington Ingalls Industries photo via USN)

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LPD 22 under construction at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems NGSS (now Huntington Ingalls Industries), Pascagoula, Mississippi

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under construction - 2008 (LPD-22 website)

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under construction - 2008 (LPD-22 website)
 
 
USS San Diego (LPD 22):
 
In late 2014, San Diego operated with the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group in the United States Fifth Fleet area.

... history wanted ...
 
City of San Diego:

San Diego is a city in the U.S. state of California. It is in San Diego County, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately 120 miles (190 km) south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico.

With an estimated population of 1,419,516 as of July 1, 2017, San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest in California. It is part of the San Diego-Tijuana conurbation, the second-largest transborder agglomeration between the U.S. and a bordering country after Detroit-Windsor, with a population of 4,922,723 people. The city is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches, long association with the United States Navy, and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center.

San Diego has been called "the birthplace of California". Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, it was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claimed the area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California 200 years later. The Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcalá, founded in 1769, formed the first European settlement in what is now California. In 1821, San Diego became part of the newly independent Mexico, which reformed as the First Mexican Republic two years later. California became part of the United States in 1848 following the Mexican-American War and was admitted to the union as a state in 1850.

The city is the seat of San Diego County and is the economic center of the region as well as the San Diego-Tijuana metropolitan area. San Diego's main economic engines are military and defense-related activities, tourism, international trade, and manufacturing. The presence of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), with the affiliated UCSD Medical Center, has helped make the area a center of research in biotechnology.

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England named the San Diego on 30 April 2004:
"San Diego is home to a large number of the Pacific Fleet's ships. For decades our nation's sailors and Marines have begun their service to America at boot camps in San Diego. Thousands of military families and veterans have fallen in love with the area, and are fortunate enough to live and work in San Diego. USS San Diego will project American power to the far corners of the earth and support the cause of freedom well into the 21st century."
The city is the home of Naval Base San Diego, the Navy's largest base in the Pacific, and Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, the United States Marine Corps' west coast recruit training center.

source: wikipedia
 
 
 
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