USS Omaha to be commissioned
The future littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Omaha is on its way to its homeport in San Diego, California, where it is scheduled to be commissioned in on 3 February 2018 at the city’s Broadway Pier.
USS Omaha was launched on 20 November and christened on 20 December. The LCS vessel is a modular, reconfigurable ship with three mission packages for surface warfare, mine countermeasures and anti-submarine warfare.
On its transit to San Diego the vessel made a fuel stop at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, the navy’s strategic logistics installation for routine, contingency, humanitarian, counter-narcotic and migrant operations in the Caribbean.
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