 The Navy's first littoral combat ship USS Freedom arrived at joint-based Pearl Harbor Hickam. The ultra-modern U.S. Navy ship, bearing a four-color camouflage combination, including flat black, haze gray, haze white, and ocean gray, arrived at Pearl Harbor while on a deployment to the Asia-Pacific region. The ship was specially designed to be able to maneuver in areas of water difficult for many larger Navy ships. The littoral zone refers to the part of a sea, lake, or river that is close to the shore. The littoral combat ship can get into those areas that our Bluewater Navy not necessarily can access. From our shallow draft that we have, we can operate in those close-in land. Not only for operations, but to engage with regional navies where we cannot necessarily send a destroyer or cruiser into them because the port might be too shallow for conditions. Fast, agile, and mission-focused, LCS platforms are designed to employ modular mission packages that can be configured for three separate purposes—surface warfare, mine countermeasures, or anti-submarine warfare. Two NT-30 Rolls-Royce gas turbine engines. Getting this ship out on this deployment is just important, and it is really unique that it's occurring on the heels of a week that ends on the 15th of our anniversary for the 3rd fleet and the 7th fleet. This deployment will also capstone looking at the operational concepts, minimal manning, maintenance, and its business of rotational presence for this class of ship. Reporting from Joint Base Pearl Harbor, Hickam, this is Petty Officer Daniel Barker.