A response team of Sailors and U.S. Coast Guardsmen from the littoral combat ship USS Freedom prepares to apprehend a 'go-fast' vessel intercepted by Freedom and its embarked MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter in the eastern Pacific Ocean. 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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<dd>DVIDS Tags: drugs; vbss; cocaine; interdiction; littoral combat ship; maritime operations; navy; uss freedom (LCS 1); U.S. Navy; drug smuggling; counter illicit traficking operations</dd></dl>
Lt. Edward Early
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