USS Charleston completes 26-month deployment, returns to San Diego port.

The littoral combat ship Charleston returned to San Diego after a deployment that lasted for 26 months due to rotating crews. The Navy is now shifting to using single crews to operate some of these warships. Charleston conducted mine countermeasure training and was the first commissioned U.S. Navy ship to visit the port of Manila in four years. An unmanned aerial vehicle crashed into the ship less than three weeks after it left San Diego in 2021.