It's extremely expensive to dismantle in a dry dock. I would speculate that not only were the components too expensive to extract, but that they were probably obsolete. The US Navy is rapidly modernizing and instituting much new technology. It's the same reason you can't disassemble a a '70s era car and build it into a 2026 model.I assumed so but why not re-use all the parts for something
Looking up the ship shows it was an amphibious assault ship commissioned in 1978.
