0911290260R-003 GULF OF ADEN (Nov. 29, 2009) The visit, board, search and seizure team assigned to the guided-missile cruiser USS Chosin (CG 65) approach the ship in a rigid hull inflatable boat to practice ladder boarding techniques. 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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Keywords: aden, anti-piracy, chosin, ctf-151, gulf, operations, uss