ribbon. Into the 1970s Pyro remained active with the Pacific Fleet, providing vital underway ammunition replenishment services during her annual deployments and refining her readiness and maintaining her high material and personnel standards during port periods. In early 1994, the USS Pyro (AE-24) was decommissioned, struck from the Naval register in April 1997 and later, was moved to the Suisun Bay, CA, Nest A. In February 2012, Pyro departed San Francisco Bay under tow for scrapping at EMR's Southern Recycling in New Orleans, LA. Her recycling was complete by the end of 2012. References External links Photo gallery at Navsource.org USS Pyro AE-1 / AE-24 Association Nitro-class ammunition ships Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States Ships built in Sparrows Point, Maryland 1958 ships