National Defense Reserve Fleet
"Jason" was decommissioned, struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 24 June 1995, and transferred to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benicia, California. On 9 November 2006 a contract was awarded to Marine Metal Inc. of Brownsville, Texas for her scrapping. "Jason" was removed from the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay Group, on 8 January 2007.