USS Kidd was assigned to Carrier Task Force 60 (CTF-60) in October 1994, forming around . During this period, the task force provided support for the naval weapons and ammunition embargo of the war-torn republics of the former Yugoslavia ("Operation Sharpguard"), the enforced no-fly zone over the area (Operation Deny Flight), and air drops of humanitarian aid to the residents of the city of Sarajevo ("Operation Provide Promise"). On 16 April 1997, the destroyer began a three-day port visit to Boston, Massachusetts, to coincide with the 100th running of the Boston Marathon. From there, she moved southward to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for a community relations project before assuming drug interdiction duties in the Caribbean. She transited the Panama Canal to the Eastern Pacific on 30 April. Following another transit of the Canal and a brief stop in Charleston, South Carolina, USS Kidd ended her final deployment in Norfolk on 1 June 1997. USS Kidd was decommissioned for placement into storage as a reserve warship on 12 March 1998 at Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia. Present at this decommissioning ceremony were several of Admiral Isaac Kidd's surviving family members, including his son, Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., USN (Ret.). USS Kidd's last American commanding officer was Commander Thomas R. Andress, USN. Current status The vessel has been renamed , a guided-missile destroyer currently in active service of Republic of China Navy. She was formally commissioned at the Su-ao Naval Base in northeastern Taiwan on 2006-11-03, along with her sister ship, . Due to her somewhat run-down condition from her storage, she was the third former Kidd-class vessel commissioned by ROCN. Tso Ying is named after the largest naval base in Taiwan, the Tso Ying Naval Base in the Tsoying District, Kaohsiung, of southern Taiwan. The Tso Ying Naval Base is also the location of the Republic of China's naval academy and fleet headquarters. See also List of destroyers of the United States Navy References Further reading External links USS Kidd veterans' website Navysite.de page Kidd-class destroyers Ships built in Pascagoula, Mississippi 1979 ships Cold War destroyers of the United States Gulf War ships of the United States