Detection and Counter-Narcotics Activities

Sailors aboard the Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigate USS Crommelin (FFG 37) heave in a mooring line as the ship prepares to depart Naval Station Pearl Harbor for a six-month deployment. With more than 200 officers and Sailors, the Crommelin deployed to Naval Forces Southern Command area of responsibility to engage in monitoring, detection and counter-narcotics activities. Frigates fulfill a protection of shipping mission as anti-submarine warfare combatants for amphibious expeditionary forces, underway replenishment groups and merchant convoys.