 The Navy accepted delivery of the future USS Milwaukee LCS-5 during a ceremony at the Marinette Marine Corporation shipyard. Milwaukee is the sixth littoral combat ship to be delivered to the Navy, and the third of the Freedom Class variant to join the fleet. This is the final milestone prior to commissioning, which is slated for November 21 in its namesake city. Milwaukee will be home ported in San Diego. The fleet ocean-tugged USNS Apache departed Norfolk October 20 to begin searching for wreckage from the missing US flagged merchant vessel El Faro. El Faro went missing during the height of Hurricane Joaquin. Apache is deploying to a search grid in the Bahamas, which is the last known location for the missing vessel. The trilateral exercise, Malabar 2015, came to a close October 19. The annual high-end warfighting exercise featured maritime patrol and reconnaissance operations, surface and anti-submarine warfare, air defense exercises, and visit board search and seizure operations. For these stories and more, visit Navy.mil.