210523-N-RL695-2160 CARIBBEAN SEA - (May 23, 2021) -- The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Sioux City (LCS 11), top, conducts a bi-lateral maritime interdiction exercise with the Dominican Republic Navy Defiant-class patrol vessel Betelgeuse (GC 102), May 23, 2021. Sioux City is deployed to the 4th Fleet area of operations to support Joint Interagency Task Force South’s mission, which includes counter-illicit drug trafficking missions in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.

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