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American sailors board a vessel that is suspected of members committing acts of piracy while sailing in the Indian Ocean. After receiving a report of an attempted act of piracy from the International Maritime Bureau in Kuala Lumpur on the morning of Jan. 20, the USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) and other U.S. naval forces in the area located this vessel controlled by suspected pirates and reported its position. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Information Specialist Kenneth Anderson.