Three ships of the

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have been USS ''John Rodgers'' for John Rodgers, his son, John Rodgers and his great grandson, John Rodgers. *, was a lighthouse tender and part of the Lighthouse Service run by the Navy from 1917 to 1919 *, was a , commissioned in 1943 and decommissioned in 1946 *, was a , commissioned in 1979 and decommissioned in 1998

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