Joint Service Naval Operation Seizes Illicit Weapons from Two Dhows off Somalia’s Indian Ocean

The guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) seized illicit shipments of weapons and weapons components from two stateless dhows during a maritime security operation in international waters off the coast of Somalia, Feb. 11-12. The Maritime security operations, conducted by the U.S. 5th Fleet, involves routine patrols to determine the situation in the...