Unit Commendation. 4/1/1983 - CDR Joseph T. Lario relieved CDR Steven J. Loucks as CO 6/30/1983 - In port, Port Everglades, FLA 7/23/1984 -Returned to Norfolk after 5 months med deployment, visiting La Spezia, Italy and Ashdod, Israel 6/10/1985 - Arrived New London for Refresher training 2/6/1986 - CDR Robert L. Hendricks relieved CDR. J.T. Lario as CO 7/15/1986 - Began overhaul at Puget Sound NSY 1/15/1988 - Completed overhaul at Puget sound NSY 11/5/1988 - Rejoined Subron 6 at Norfolk Naval Base after 2 1/2 years extended overhaul at PSNSY 4/3/1989 - CDR Stanley J Mack assumes command 3/5/1990 - Returned to Norfolk from 6 mo. Med Cruise 10/11/1991 - CDR Louis T Roumaya relieved CDR Stanley J Mack as CO at Naval station Norfolk 11/24/1993 - CDR Wiley Robert Deal, Jr. assumes command 11/14/1994 - Returned to Norfolk from 4-month med and S. Atlantic cruise, visited Toulon, La Maddalena, Gibraltar. Roosevelt Roads, Curaçao and Bridgeport, Barbados May 1995 Mine laying exercises, Joint Service Special Warfare operations - Operational Test Launch of Tomahawk cruise missile. 7/10/1995 - Inactivation at Norfolk 10/20/1995 - Placed "in reserve, in commission" from the active fleet for decommissioning. Recycling start date 5/16/1996 - Decommissioned at Puget Sound NSY, She had nine commanding Officers and steamed 600.000 miles. Strike date. 10/15/1996 - Recycling started Decommissioning and disposal Flying Fish was decommissioned on 16 May 1996 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register the same day. Her scrapping via the Nuclear-Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, was completed on 15 October 1996. References NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive Flying Fish (SSN-673) Ships built in Groton, Connecticut Sturgeon-class submarines Cold War submarines of the United States Nuclear submarines of the United States Navy 1969 ships