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USS Ponce (LPD-15)
USS ''Ponce'' (AFSB(I)-15), formerly LPD-15) is an ''Austin''-class amphibious transport dock of the United States Navy. Commissioned in 1971, she spent most of her life based on the East Coast and operating in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, serving in Operation Desert Shield and supporting US operations in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. It was intended that she would be decommissioned in 2012, but she gained a reprieve to be converted at short notice into a testbed for the Afloat Forward Staging Base concept, in which she would act as a base for mine-sweeping MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopters in the Persian Gulf. Since the conversion, she has been used to test other ideas and technologies, such as the Laser Weapon System and operating US Army attack helicopters at sea.
== Construction ==
''Ponce'' is the only ship of the United States Navy that is named for Ponce in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which in turn was named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, the first governor of Puerto Rico and the European discoverer of Florida.
Her keel was laid down on 31 October 1966 by the Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle, Washington. She was launched on 20 May 1970 sponsored by Florence W. Hyland, the wife of Admiral John J. Hyland, and commissioned on 10 July 1971.
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