Final Decommission
Navarro continued to maintain a high state of readiness and provided amphibious expertise through both her west coast training operations and her deployments to the Western Pacific. Reclassified an amphibious transport, LPA-215, on 1 January 1969, she was decommissioned at San Diego.
On 20 August 1970, she was placed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay, California. On 1 February 1982, Navarro was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and formally transferred to the Maritime Administration. her final disposition is unknown.
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