020624-N-4374S-028 Arabian Gulf (Jun. 24, 2002) -- A Navy Sailor assigned to a boarding team from the destroyer USS Cushing (DD 985) moves carefully from one cargo container to another during a contraband search of a merchant vessel in the Arabian Gulf region. Boarding teams have been conducting Maritime Interception Operations (MIO) searching for contraband cargo aboard merchant ships in the area, in support of UN sanctions against Iraq while combating terrorism under Operations Southern Watch and Enduring Freedom. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Michael Sandberg (RELEASED) US Na


020624-N-4374S-028 Arabian Gulf (Jun. 24, 2002) -- A Navy Sailor assigned to a boarding team from the destroyer USS Cushing (DD 985) moves carefully from one cargo container to another during a contraband search of a merchant vessel in the Arabian Gulf region. Boarding teams have been conducting Maritime Interception Operations (MIO) searching for contraband cargo aboard merchant ships in the area, in support of UN sanctions against Iraq while combating terrorism under Operations Southern Watch and Enduring Freedom. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Michael Sandberg (RELEASED) US Navy 020624-N-4374S-028 A Navy Sailor assigned to a boarding team from the destroyer USS Cushing (DD 985) moves carefully from one cargo container to another


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