Sailors and Coast Guardsmen from the littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) use a rigid-hull inflatable boat to retrieve bales of cocaine dumped overboard by a small boat.

CARIBBEAN SEA (Mar. 12, 2010) Sailors and Coast Guardsmen from the littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) use a rigid-hull inflatable boat to retrieve bales of cocaine dumped overboard by a small boat intercepted by Freedom during counter-illicit trafficking operations in the U.S. 4th Fleet area of responsibility. Freedom recovered two tons of cocaine from the southern Caribbean Sea. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Ed Early) File# 100312-N-7058E-123