University of San Diego Digital USD Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 2005-05-01 Facing the Leadership Challenges on Decommissioning United States Navy Ships Darren J. McGlynn EdD University of San Diego Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.sandiego.edu/dissertations Part of the Leadership Studies Commons Digital USD Citation McGlynn, Darren J. EdD, "Facing the Leadership Challenges on Decommissioning United States Navy Ships" (2005). Dissertations. 747. https://digital.sandiego.edu/dissertations/747 This Dissertation: Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Digital USD. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital USD. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. FACING THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES ON DECOMMISSIONING U.S. NAVY SHIPS by Darren J. McGlynn A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education University of San Diego May, 2005 Dissertation Committee Robert Donmoyer, Ph.D. Daniel M. Miller, Ph.D. Port R. Martin, Ed.D. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. © Copyright by Darren J. McGlynn, 2005 All Rights Reserved Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ABSTRACT Since the late 1980s, hundreds of U.S. Navy ships have been decommissioned. Although ship decommissionings were postponed immediately after the September 11th attack, today the Navy is again engaged in "rightsizing" its force. Depending on the type of ship and its age, a ship faces different fates after the decommissioning process has been completed. Except on the rare occasion when a ship is turned into a museum, most decommissioned ships are disposed of in one of three ways.