Editing USS Point Defiance (section)

===Decommissioning, 1983&ndash;2011===
''Point Defiance''  was decommissioned on 30 September 1983 and her name struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on 24 February 1992. She was sold to Pegasus Inc., on 29 September 1995, but repossessed by the Navy, 1 July 1997. Custody was transferred to [[Maritime Administration]] (MARAD), 18 December 1998, and she was laid up in the [[National Defense Reserve Fleet]], [[Suisun Bay]], [[Benicia, California]]. On 28 July 2011, ''Point Defiance'' was sold by MARAD to All Star Metals of Brownsville, Tx for $578,539 to be dismantled.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://voa.marad.dot.gov/Solicitation_Awards/docs/mar-610/MA-14147-POINT-DEFIANCE-SIGNED.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-01-04 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044528/https://voa.marad.dot.gov/Solicitation_Awards/docs/mar-610/MA-14147-POINT-DEFIANCE-SIGNED.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Point Defiance'' departed the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet on 8 September to be cleaned by Allied Defense Recycling at the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1389516 |title = USS Point Defiance LSD31 - ShipSpotting.com - Ship Photos and Ship Tracker}}</ref> ''Point Defiance'' was towed to Brownsville upon completion of the cleaning and was scrapped in October 2011.