The flagship for Commander Sixth Fleet, USS LaSalle (AGF 3), is underway in the Mediterranean Sea in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. LaSalle, a command ship, was originally commissioned as a Raleigh-class amphibious transport dock ship (LPD). She was converted to a command ship in 1972, and served as the flagship for the Commander, Middle East Force in the Arbian Gulf until 1993 when she was refitted and assigned as flagship for the Sixth Fleet.