USS ''Comstock'' (LSD-45) is a of the

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. She was the second Navy ship to be named for the

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, the first being , commissioned in 1945 and decommissioned in 1976. The Comstock Lode was discovered in 1859, and was one of the richest deposits of

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known in the world. ''Comstock'' was laid down on 27 October 1986, by the

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; launched on 15 January 1988; and commissioned on 3 February 1990. At first USS ''Comstock'' had an all-male crew, but soon became the first United States Navy combatant ship to have a fully integrated crew of male and female sailors. As of 2002, ''Comstock'' is homeported at NS San Diego,

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, and assigned to

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. As of 2014, she is part of the '' Makin Island''

amphibious ready group An amphibious ready group (ARG) of the United States Navy consists of a naval element—a group of warships known as an Amphibious Task Force (ATF)—and a landing force (LF) of U.S. Marines (and occasionally U.S. Army soldiers), in total about ...

. In December 2020 the U.S. Navy's Report to Congress on the Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels stated that the ship was planned to be placed Out of Commission in Reserve in 2026.

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