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U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Roger Byassee provides security during training with the visit, board, search and seizure team assigned to the guided-missile cruiser USS Chosin in the Gulf of Aden, Nov. 29, 2009. The Chosin is the flagship of Combined Joint Task Force 151, a multinational task force established to conduct counter-piracy operations under a mission-based mandate to actively deter, disrupt, and suppress piracy off the coast of Somalia.

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U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Roger Byassee provides security during training with the visit, board, search and seizure team assigned to the guided-missile cruiser USS Chosin in the Gulf of Aden, Nov. 29, 2009. The Chosin is the flagship of Combined Joint Task Force 151, a multinational task force established to conduct counter-piracy operations under a mission-based mandate to actively deter, disrupt, and suppress piracy off the coast of Somalia.

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