Keywords: Members of a visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) team approach a suspected pirate mothership.jpg Members of a visit board search and seizure VBSS team from the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg CG 64 and U S Coast Guard Tactical Law Enforcement Team South Detachment 409 approach a suspected pirate mothership after responding to a merchant vessel distress signal while operating in the Combined Maritime Forces CMF area of responsibility as part of Combined Task Force CTF 151 CTF 151 is a multinational task force established to conduct counter-piracy operations under a mission-based mandate throughout the CMF area of responsibility to actively deter disrupt and suppress piracy in order to protect global maritime security and secure freedom of navigation for the benefit of all nations http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 71603 U S Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric L Beauregard/Released 2009-05-13 <gallery>File US militaries seized suspected pirates jpg File Pirates capture-May 2009 jpg</gallery> PD-USGov-Military-Navy Combined Task Force 151 Piracy in Somalia Aboard USS Gettysburg CG-64 |