Given the question: USS Peterson (DD-969) -  USS Peterson (DD-969) named for Lieutenant Commander Carl Jerrold Peterson (1936–1968) was a Spruance-class destroyer laid down by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula Mississippi. She commissioned on 9 July 1977 and decommissioned on 4 October 2002. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
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Mean Of Transportation