U.S. Sailors assigned to the visit, board, search and seizure team aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Chosin (CG 65) prepare to search a suspected pirate dhow in the Gulf of Aden Nov. 12, 2009. Chosin was assigned to Combined Joint Task Force 151, a multinational task force established to conduct counterpiracy operations under a mission-based mandate to actively deter, disrupt, and suppress piracy off the coast of Somalia.