111228-N-ED900-562 GULF OF ADEN (Dec. 28, 2011) Ensign Adam Powell, a member of the visit, board, search and seizure team aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG 91), keeps watch as other team members prepare a rescue litter for an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Raptors of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 71 during medical-evacuation training. Pinckney is assigned to Combined Task Force 151, a multinational, mission-based task force working under Combined Maritime Forces to conduct counter-piracy operations in the Southern Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Somali Basin,

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111228-N-ED900-562 GULF OF ADEN (Dec. 28, 2011) Ensign Adam Powell, a member of the visit, board, search and seizure team aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG 91), keeps watch as other team members prepare a rescue litter for an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Raptors of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 71 during medical-evacuation training. Pinckney is assigned to Combined Task Force 151, a multinational, mission-based task force working under Combined Maritime Forces to conduct counter-piracy operations in the Southern Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Somali Basin, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean. ( Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Eddie Harrison/Released) save1 by MilitaryHealth

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