Visit, board, search and seizure member Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Evan T. Gainer, from Lancaster, Pa., checks his surroundings aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) during a bilateral counter-piracy exercise with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (Navy) frigate Yi Yang (FF 548). The focus of the exercise was American and Chinese naval cooperation in detecting, boarding, and searching suspected pirated vessels. Winston S. Churchill is deployed to the 5th Fleet area of responsibility conducting maritime security operations, theater security cooperation efforts and support missions for Operation Enduring Freedom.
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