The New Orleans, commissioned in 2011, is a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock serving in the Pacific Fleet. She embodies the flexibility of her class—able to carry Marines, their vehicles and equipment, and the landing craft to put them ashore wherever needed. She has deployed to the Western Pacific and Indo-Pacific region, delivering Marines to where they need to be with quiet professionalism. New Orleans: a name with soul and a ship with strength to match it.