Gunner's Mate 1st Class Michael Davis attached to Surface

Gunner's Mate 1st Class Michael Davis attached to Surface Warfare Detachment 1 instructs Royal Malaysian Navy Leading Rate Surface Warfare Amir Husin on how to maintain positive control of a potentially hostile subject during a visit, board, search and seizure joint training event as part of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Malaysia 2013. More than 1,200 Sailors and Marines are participating in CARAT Malaysia. U.S. Navy ships participating in CARAT Malaysia include the amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46) with embarked U.S. Marine Corps landing force, the diving and salvage vessel USNS Safeguard (T-ARS 50) with embarked Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 1, the guided missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) and the littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1). CARAT is a series of bilateral military exercises between the U.S. Navy and the armed forces of Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Timor Leste. (U.S. Navy Photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Matthew Olay/Released).