Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Mahan (DDG 72) sort pallets during a vertical replenishment

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GULF OF ADEN (Jan. 17, 2009) 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). Mahan is assigned to Combined Task Force 151, a multinational task force established to conduct counter-piracy operations in and around the Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.

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