 Welcome to All Hands Update, I'm Petty Officer Tony Rosa. The Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate USS Ingram was decommissioned at Naval Station ever at November 12th. Ingram returned from her last deployment October 22 to conclude 25 years of service to the nation. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates joined the crew, friends and family in honoring Ingram by acting as the guest speaker at the ceremony. He said, We owe a huge debt of gratitude, all of us. The decommissioning ceremony is a time-honored naval tradition that retires a ship from service, with a variety of ceremonial observances paying respect to the ship and sailors who served on her over decades of honorable service. For more information on Ingram, visit navy.mil.