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U.S. Navy sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Mahan (DDG 72) sort pallets during a vertical replenishment with the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Tippecanoe (T-AO 199) underway in the Gulf of Aden on Jan. 17, 2009. The Mahan is assigned to Combined Task Force 151, a multinational task force conducting counter-piracy operations in and around the Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and Red Sea.

U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS Mahan (DDG 72) sort pallets.

U.S. Navy sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Mahan (DDG 72) sort pallets during a vertical replenishment with the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Tippecanoe (T-AO 199) underway in the Gulf of Aden on Jan. 17, 2009. The Mahan is assigned to Combined Task Force 151, a multinational task force conducting counter-piracy operations in and around the Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and Red Sea.

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