In a Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 photo, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates addresses a crowd gathered for the decommissioning ceremony of the USS Ingraham, a guided-missile frigate, at Naval Station Everett in Everett, Wash. The frigate returned last month from its final mission, a seven-month deployment with a multinational force fighting illegal drug trafficking in Central American waters. It will be towed to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton and dismantled for scrap. (AP Photo/The Herald, Ian Terry)