High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Sirocco (PC-6) is the sixth Cyclone-class patrol ship of the U.S. Navy. Sirocco was laid down 20 June 1992 by Bollinger Machine, Lockport, Louisiana and launched 29 May 1993. She was commissioned by the Navy 11 June 1994. She is assigned to Commander FIFTH Fleet through Destroyer Squadron FIFTY and is homeported in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. 5 PC class warships are forward deployed to C5F and crewed by one of 13 rotational PC crews homeported in Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek VA (Virginia Beach, VA, USA). There, under the auspices of Commander, Patrol Coastal Squadron One/Commander, Patrol Coastal Class Squadron the crews train on five US based PC hulls prior to completed a six month deployment to FIFTH fleet. PC ships such as Sirocco complete a variety of mission sets that has expanded since the transfer of the ships and associated support structures from Naval Special Warfare to Naval Surface Warfare. Currently, PC ships deployed in Bahrain primarily conduct Maritime Security Operations in the Persian Gulf with a concentration towards Maritime Infrastructure Protection, namely Iraq`s two oil terminals KAAOT and ABOT (formerly MABOT).