Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey Steele, mineman, assigned to the littoral combat ship USS Freedom, right, and a fellow Sailor bring aboard a bale of cocaine dumped overboard by suspected drug smugglers in a 'go-fast' vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean as Cmdr. Randy Garner, Freedom's commanding officer, looks on. Freedom seized the vessel and four suspects and recovered one ton of cocaine during counter-illicit trafficking operations in the U.S. 4th Fleet area of responsibility.
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Lt. Edward Early
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