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USS Scott (DDG 995)

USS SCOTT was the last but one KIDD - class guided missile destroyer. Originally built for Iran, the ship was first named NADER, but after the destroyer's takeover by the U.S. Navy she was renamed SCOTT. The destroyer was last homeported in Mayport, FL. In 2005, SCOTT was transferred to TAIWAN where she was recommissioned as TZUO-YING.

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This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS SCOTT. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.

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USS SCOTT History:

From the outset SCOTT belonged to a ship class with an unusual origin story. Laid down at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, on February 12, 1979, and launched on March 1, 1980, she had been ordered for the Imperial Iranian Navy as NADER. The revolution in Iran halted delivery and the U.S. Navy took her over, redesignating her a guided-missile destroyer. Commissioning followed at Pascagoula on October 24, 1981, and the ship entered the Atlantic Fleet as the fourth KIDD-class unit, optimized for hot-weather operations and heavy anti-air warfare duty during the closing decade of the Cold War.

Through 1982, the new destroyer settled into fleet service from an East Coast base, rotating through workups, local exercises, and early port calls in the Caribbean while her crew completed shakedown and refresher training typical of a first-of-service year. In this period she operated in the western Atlantic and visited Jamaica during a Montego Bay liberty stop as part of those evolutions.

In 1983, SCOTT shifted to more extended operations. In June she rendezvoused at Mayport with the frigate JESSE L. BROWN (FF 1089) and the destroyer CONOLLY (DD 979) and proceeded to Roosevelt Roads for the start of a long multinational deployment that took U.S. ships south from the Caribbean to operate alongside Latin American partners - an itinerary that exercised convoy defense, anti-submarine warfare, and high-end air-defense coordination across many ports before returning to the U.S. late in the year. The ship's early-1983 time line also included refresher training out of Guantanamo Bay, reflecting a typical pattern of "Gitmo" drills and a short Jamaica liberty for crews between serials.

By 1985, SCOTT had joined a Sixth Fleet deployment that would extend into the Indian Ocean as tensions in the broader Middle East ebbed and flowed. After transiting the Suez Canal, she reached the remote logistics hub at Diego Garcia. A Navy photograph shows SCOTT moored there alongside the carrier SARATOGA (CV 60) and the oiler MONONGAHELA (AO 178) on December 16, 1985 - a snapshot that pins the destroyer's presence deep in the theater at the height of the Iran-Iraq "Tanker War".

The Mediterranean remained tense in early 1986 as the United States challenged Libya's claim to the "Line of Death" in the Gulf of Sidra. On March 24, 1986, SCOTT crossed that line as part of a surface action group with the cruiser TICONDEROGA (CG 47) and the destroyer CARON (DD 970) while carrier air wings enforced freedom-of-navigation from the central Med. The episode featured missile shots from Libyan coastal batteries and air and naval skirmishing over succeeding days, after which the U.S. force withdrew with its objectives achieved. SCOTT completed the deployment in the spring, returned stateside for post-deployment maintenance, and resumed training on the East Coast.

Through 1987, the destroyer cycled through fleet exercises and workups as Atlantic Fleet emphasis shifted from large blue-water carrier operations to more flexible, surge-ready deployments. She remained a high-end air-defense picket and screen ship during these periods, exercising with carrier groups and destroyer squadrons along the U.S. East Coast and in the western Atlantic. In 1988, she went to Philadelphia for a major refit that modernized her air-search and fire-control radars and refreshed combat-system tracking equipment, returning to the fleet late in the year with improved sensors and renewed machinery.

Events in the Persian Gulf then pulled SCOTT and many of her contemporaries steadily eastward. On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Within days Atlantic Fleet carriers and their screens were sprinting toward the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf for Operation Desert Shield. Between August 8 and August 24, 1990, SCOTT formed part of the DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69) battle group as it repositioned to the theater. On August 18, she took part in the coalition's first maritime enforcement actions when U.S. ships began diverting merchant traffic suspected of violating emerging embargo rules. That day SCOTT ordered the Cypriot freighter DONGOLA away from Aqaba after the master acknowledged cargo bound for Iraq. She spent the remainder of 1990 on Red Sea station duties - screening carriers, providing area air-defense coverage, and conducting challenge/diversion operations under U.N. mandates - as the coalition built combat power.

When the air war opened in January 1991, SCOTT remained in the Desert Storm architecture as a Red Sea screen and control unit, supporting the carriers firing the first long-range strikes into Iraq and continuing embargo enforcement until the cease-fire. The end of hostilities in February returned the destroyer to a cycle of transit, repair, and stateside training through the remainder of the year as the Navy reset after the Gulf War.

From 1993 into 1994, the ship's deployments oriented on the Adriatic as the Balkan wars drove NATO and U.N. maritime operations. SCOTT rotated with carrier groups to enforce the Yugoslav sanctions at sea (Operation Sharp Guard), backed U.N. airlift and relief operations (Provide Promise), and contributed to the NATO no-fly regime over Bosnia (Deny Flight). In this period she also executed the demanding "Red Crown" role - airspace management and control for the busy combat zone - acting as the Adriatic air-control ship while allied jets cycled to and from CAP stations over the Dalmatian coast. During December 1994, she and consorts paused at Haifa for maintenance (December 18-26) before proceeding southbound on December 27 to continue tasking.

In 1995, she continued Mediterranean and Adriatic duty as NATO pressure and diplomacy gradually damped the conflict. Between underway periods she returned to the East Coast. A summer photograph records SCOTT moored at Naval Station Norfolk's Pier 24 on August 19, 1995, alongside the cruiser YORKTOWN (CG 48) during a post-deployment inport interval and shortly before her next Mediterranean cruise.

Between August 1995 and February 1996, SCOTT deployed to the Mediterranean as an escort to the WASP (LHD 1) Amphibious Ready Group. During this cruise the destroyer alternated between blue-water air-defense screen duties for the ARG and airspace control in the Adriatic - serving as a "Red Crown" air-control ship while NATO and U.N. operations over and around Bosnia transitioned from Deny Flight toward the Dayton-accord implementation phase. The deployment aligned with the tail end of Operation Deny Flight (which concluded on December 20, 1995) and the continuing maritime enforcement under Operation Sharp Guard into 1996. SCOTT's role included managing tactical airspace for allied sorties and maintaining AAW coverage for amphibious shipping in the central and eastern Med. During the deployment to the U.S. Sixth Fleet, SCOTT visited Augusta Bay, Sicily; Valletta, Malta; Istanbul, Turkey; Varna, Bulgaria; Constanta, Romania; Volos, Greece; Salamis, Greece; Alexandria, Egypt; Naples, Italy; and Corfu, Greece.

A late-career change of homeport followed. On June 24, 1997, SCOTT departed Norfolk for a shift to Mayport, arriving there on June 27 and using the new base to continue post-overhaul exercises and readiness training in the western Atlantic and Caribbean with destroyer squadron mates and carrier groups staging out of Florida.

The final chapter of U.S. service closed the following year. After nearly two decades marked by Cold War air-defense screens, Libya freedom-of-navigation operations, a wartime Red Sea/Arabian Gulf deployment, and extended Adriatic control duties, SCOTT decommissioned on December 10, 1998. She remained in reserve until transfer negotiations with Taiwan concluded. Sold and then refitted for the Republic of China Navy, she reentered service as ROCS KEE LUNG (DDG 1801) on December 17, 2005, becoming the lead unit of Taiwan's KEE LUNG-class and extending the sea life of the capable KIDD design into the twenty-first century.

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