USS JFK to be dismantled at Port of Brownsville

PORT OF BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The former USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier sailed out of Philadelphia Thursday and is scheduled to be dismantled when it arrives in Brownsville, Texas.

The decommissioned aircraft carrier will take about two weeks to arrive to its final destination at the Port of Brownsville.

Commissioned in September of 1968, the John F. Kennedy was the last conventionally powered aircraft carrier built by the U.S. Navy.

The vessel was used for 18 deployments. During the Cold War, many of those deployments were under the surveillance of the Soviet Navy, according to CBS News.

In 2001, after the terrorist attacks on September 11, the SS JFK and its battle group helped secure the mid-Atlantic seaboard.

The vessel was removed from service in 2007.