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U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Thomas Frederick (right), a member of the USS Fitzgerald's (DDG 62) visit, board, search and seizure team, secures a perimeter while other team members speak with the ship's crew while underway in the Pacific Ocean on May 1, 2009. The Fitzgerald is holding a visit, board, search and seizure exercise with Indian navy supply ship INS Jyoti (A58) during Malabar 2009, a trilateral exercise between the U.S., India and Japan involving air, surface and sub-surface warfare.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Thomas Frederick secures a perimeter.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Thomas Frederick (right), a member of the USS Fitzgerald's (DDG 62) visit, board, search and seizure team, secures a perimeter while other team members speak with the ship's crew while underway in the Pacific Ocean on May 1, 2009. The Fitzgerald is holding a visit, board, search and seizure exercise with Indian navy supply ship INS Jyoti (A58) during Malabar 2009, a trilateral exercise between the U.S., India and Japan involving air, surface and sub-surface warfare.

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