191126-N-JS726-0140 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Nov. 26, 2019)

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Nov. 26, 2019) Electrician’s Mate 1st Class Michael Jeffus, assigned to the Freedom-variant USS Indianapolis (LCS 17), hugs his children after arriving at Naval Station Mayport. Indianapolis officially joined the fleet on Oct. 26 when it commissioned in Burns Harbor, Ind. Homeported in Mayport, Fla., as the Navy’s 19th littoral combat ship and the 9th Freedom variant, USS Indianapolis was designed for operation in near-shore environments yet capable of open-ocean operation, to defeat asymmetric “anti-access” threats such as mines, quiet diesel submarines and fast surface craft. (US Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist David Holmes/Released)