High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Valley Forge (CG-50) was a Ticonderoga-class cruiser in the United States Navy. She was named for Valley Forge, where the Continental Army camped during one winter in the American Revolution. The ship was built by Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi and was christened on 29 September 1984 by ships sponsor Julia Vadala Taft, wife of Deputy Secretary of Defense William H. Taft IV. The ship was decommissioned on 31 August 2004 at San Diego Naval Station, the first ship with the Aegis combat system withdrawn from service. The decommissioned cruiser Valley Forge was sunk as part of a Nov. 2, 2006 target practice on a test range near Kauai, Hawaii, according to the U.S. Pacific Fleet.