CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA (Feb. 26, 2019) Cmdr. Christopher K. Brusca, left, commanding officer, future USS Charleston (LCS 18), and native of Los Angeles, speaks to the citizens of Charleston, South Carolina during a city council meeting where Mayor John H. Tecklenburg, center left, honors the ship’s upcoming commissioning ceremony. LCS 18 will be the sixteenth littoral combat ship to enter the fleet and the ninth of the Independence variant. It is the sixth ship named for Charleston, the oldest and largest city in the state of South Carolina.

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