'' Chafee '' departed Pearl Harbor 9 April 2007 , as part of the San Diego based '' Nimitz '' CSG and deployed to the U.S 5th Fleet ( C5F ) area of operations . On 1 June 2007 , '' Chafee '' fired her main gun at Al-Qaeda suspects in the Puntland region of Somalia . The men were wanted for the 1998 United States embassy bombings . '' Chafee '' returned home to Pearl Harbor on 22 September 2007 , marking the end a successful 167-day Western Pacific and Middle East deployment
1998 United States embassy bombings
1998 United States embassy bombings
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