{"id":37319,"date":"2021-04-19T22:59:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T22:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/04\/19\/navy-commissions-littoral-combat-ship-oakland\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:00:14","slug":"navy-commissions-littoral-combat-ship-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2021\/04\/19\/navy-commissions-littoral-combat-ship-oakland\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy commissions littoral combat ship Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The U.S. Navy has a new littoral combat ship<\/a> in its fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Oakland was commissioned this weekend in Oakland, California, and will be homeported in San Diego, where it will join the littoral combat ships Independence, Coronado, Jackson, Montgomery, Gabrielle Giffords, Omaha, Manchester, Tulsa, Charleston, Cincinnati and Kansas City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe now have a finished warship behind us that is ready to be placed into commission,\u201d acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Harker said in a keynote address at the ceremony, according to a Navy news release. \u201cThis ship is a marvel of engineering, which will extend our capabilities for any mission across the blue water, from shoreline to shoreline.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The socially distanced commissioning ceremony April 17 featured Navy and city leaders such as Vice Adm. Sean Buck, superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\t