the end of the month. The frigate settled into a schedule of training exercises along the west coast, highlighted by port visits to Canadian and United States cities, that kept her busy throughout 1985 and nearly through 1986. On 29 September 1986, Albert David entered the yard of the National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. at San Diego to begin regular overhaul. Upon completion the ship participated in numerous ASW and detailed testing platform operations in the North Pacific and mid Pacific Islands as a member of DESRON 31 until on 18 September 1989 she was decommissioned. Albert David earned three battle stars for service in the Vietnam War. Brazilian service The Brazilian Navy leased the ship from its date of decommissioning from the USN on 18 September 1989, renaming the ship as the destroyer Pará (D 27). Brazil later purchased the vessel outright on 24 January 2001 and it was struck from the US' Naval Vessel Register that same date. It served with Brazil until 12 November 2008 when she was decommissioned, and currently sits in reserve. References External links "Playing Chicken of the Sea" TIME Magazine, 28 March 1977 Retrieved 22 August 2007 Garcia-class frigates Ships built by Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company 1964 ships Cold War frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States Vietnam War frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States Garcia-class frigates of the Brazilian Navy Pará-class destroyers (1989)