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Sunday, December 13, 2009

Freedom deployment to have CG boarding team

USS Freedom (LCS-1)The littoral combat ship Freedom is to take aboard a Coast Guard law enforcement detachment for part of its trial deployment early next year, Navy officials said, with the Coasties substituting for part of the Navy boarding team added to the LCS crew.

Freedom is taking 20 sailors in two visit, board, search and seizure teams in addition to its 75 crew members, and at some point in its deployment next year, Coast Guardsmen temporarily will take over for about half those VBSS sailors, said Lt. Cmdr. Chris Servello, a spokesman for Naval Surface Forces.

Coast Guard detachments are common aboard warships that conduct law enforcement boardings. Smuggler-hunting frigates in the Caribbean and warships in the pirate-ridden Gulf of Aden use Coast Guardsmen’s police powers to seize contraband and make arrests on the high seas.

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