Sailors assigned to the guided missile frigate USS Crommelin (FFG 37), seized 525 bales of cocaine this week during an interdiction in the Eastern Pacific.

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Sailors assigned to the guided missile frigate USS Crommelin (FFG 37), seized 525 bales of cocaine this week during an interdiction in the Eastern Pacific. Crommelin, working with U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) 105, and embarked Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light Three Seven (HSL-37), conducted what turns out to be the third largest drug interdiction in history, totaling 25,000 pounds of narcotics. Six days earlier, the guided missile frigate USS Curts (FFG 38) conducted a similar operation interdicting 30,000 pounds of cocaine, the largest drug seizure to date. U.S. Navy photo by Operations Specialist 2nd Class Eric Weber File# 040927-N-0000X-001