Complex sentence: The USS "Mississippi" (CGN-40) was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 July 1997, and she entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program around October 2004.
Split into simpler sentences: The USS "Mississippi" (CGN-40) was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 July 1997. Mississippi entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program around October 2004.