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[[File:USS Juneau Previous 3.jpg|left|200px|The third ship named USS Juneau]] The [[wp:USS Juneau (LPD-10)|USS Juneau (LPD-10)]] was the seventh ship of the twelve ship long run of [[wp:Austin-class|Austin-class]] amphibious transport docks. She was launched on 12th February 1966 and commissioned on 12th July 1969. Throughout, the seventies, the Juneau was deployed in the western Pacific making eight trips into Vietnamese waters, where she earned five battle stars. In April of 1990, she supported in the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. During Operation Desert Storm in late 1990, the Juneau was used as a troop transport dropping off supplies in Saudi Arabia. Since this, the Juneau had been used as a peacekeeping ship (as seen in East Timor in January 2000). Finally, after a long service life of 39 years, she was decommissioned on 30th October 2008 and eventually struck on 13th November 2017.