They may cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build, but the U.S. Navy is parting with one of its aircraft carriers for a penny, for the second time in two years, The Navy announced Thursday it’s paying ESCO Marine of Brownsville, Texas, one cent to take the former USS Saratoga off its hands for dismantling and recycling. The 56,000-ton Saratoga was commissioned in 1956. USS Saratoga entering harbor at Barcelona, Spain, 1965:  The legendary aircraft carrier that played a key role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam and Gulf wars and made Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi back down is to be dismantled
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The former USS Saratoga is to be recycled in Texas
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The aircraft carrier served more than 38 years in the Navy
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Carrier was involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Balkans and first Gulf War
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The U.S. Navy has given ESCO Marine a contract with a value of just a penny for the dismantling of the decommissioned aircraft carrier
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The former USS Forrestal was towed to Texas for recycling earlier this year
Ranks of enlisted crew members of @placeholder file off the ship for the last time at the end of the decommissioning ceremony