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USS Sterett Returns From Deployment
The Navy destroyer was in the Middle East and western Pacific.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett returns to Naval Base San Diego Thursday following a seven-month deployment.
About 350 sailors left San Diego in December aboard the 509-foot-long Sterett, part of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group headed to the Middle East and western Pacific.
While away, the sailors took part in counter-piracy operations and five multinational exercises and maritime security operations, according to the Navy.
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The Sterett's latest deployment was relatively quiet and uneventful compared to its previous deployment. In February 2011, the Sterett was shadowing Somali pirates when they fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the destroyer.
In response, Navy SEALS boarded a 58-foot sailboat on which a Marina del Rey couple, Jean and Scott Adams, and their friends, Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle of Seattle, had been held by the pirates. The pirates seized the sailboat a couple days earlier off Oman and shot both couples, killing them.
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During the Navy SEAL operation, two pirates were killed and 15 captured.
– City News Service
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