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Caption:
INDIAN OCEAN (Jan. 21, 2006) -- The U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke-class
guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) follows a
suspected pirate vessel in the Indian Ocean Jan. 21. After receiving a
report of an attempted act of piracy from the International Maritime
Bureau in Kuala Lumpur on the morning of Jan. 20, the guided missile
destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) and other U.S. naval forces
in the area located this vessel controlled by suspected pirates and
reported its position. After some aggressive action by Churchill, US
Sailors later established communications and boarded the vessel. U.S.
Navy photo by Chief Information Systems Technician Kenneth Anderson
(RELEASED)
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