U.S. Sailors assigned to the visit, board, search and seizure team with the guided missile destroyer USS Halsey (DDG 97) prepare to depart from the ship in order to board two Yemeni dhows while performing routine maritime security operations in the Gulf of Aden Feb. 5, 2012. Halsey, the flagship of Combined Task Force 151, a multinational task force working under the Combined Maritime Forces, is conducting counter-piracy operations in the southern Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Somali Basin, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.