The USS Milwaukee (LCS 5), the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship returned from its first successful deployment to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations.
Family and friends welcomed 112 Navy sailors home to Naval Station Mayport Saturday, holding signs, waving flags and cheering loud.
The ship deployed on December 14 to conduct U.S. Southern Command and Joint Interagency Task Force South’s counter narcotics operations in the Caribbean Sea. Milwaukee, with its embarked U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment assisted in disrupting an estimated 690 kilograms of cocaine worth an estimated street value of over $48.3 million and removed five suspected drug traffickers from the narcotics trade.
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