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''Wisconsin'' was the Navy's last active battleship when she decommissioned in March 1958. She remained in reserve for three decades, but recommissioned in October 1988 in the waning days of the Reagan-era naval expansion. Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 brought her to the Persian Gulf area within a few weeks. She was on station there when Operation "Desert Storm" combat operations began in mid-January 1991. During the brief war that followed, ''Wisconsin'' fired missiles at targets in Iraq and used her guns to help force the enemy from [[Kuwait]]. With the Mid-east war over, and the end of the Cold War producing major cuts in defense expenditures, ''Wisconsin'' was decommissioned for a third time in September 1991.  She is moored in Norfolk, Virginia, as part of a museum.

''Wisconsin'' was the Navy's last active battleship when she decommissioned in March 1958. She remained in reserve for three decades, but recommissioned in October 1988 in the waning days of the Reagan-era naval expansion. Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 brought her to the Persian Gulf area within a few weeks. She was on station there when Operation "Desert Storm" combat operations began in mid-January 1991. During the brief war that followed, ''Wisconsin'' fired missiles at targets in Iraq and used her guns to help force the enemy from [[Kuwait]]. With the Mid-east war over, and the end of the Cold War producing major cuts in defense expenditures, ''Wisconsin'' was decommissioned for a third time in September 1991.  She is moored in Norfolk, Virginia, as part of a museum.

 

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