19027-N-RF885-003 CHARLESTON, S.C. (Feb. 27, 2019) Cmdr. Christopher K. Brusca, center, from Los Angeles, commanding officer of the future littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS 18), poses for a photo with the members of Tin Can Sailors National Association of Destroyer Veterans during a ship visit. Charleston is scheduled to be commissioned in Charleston, South Carolina on March 2 and will be the sixteenth littoral combat ship to enter the fleet and the ninth of the Independence variant. It is the sixth ship named for Charleston, the oldest and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Natalia Murillo/Released)