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Welcome to the official website of first-in-class expeditionary sea base USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3)! The ship is the first U.S. ship to be commissioned outside of the United States, and is currently forward-deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet (C5F) area of operations to extend U.S. Naval Forces Central Command’s maritime reach in C5F by supporting a wide variety of missions including counter-piracy operations, maritime security operations, humanitarian aid, disaster relief and crisis response operations.