I know this is gonna sound bogus but I sware this happened, in 2007 right before the typhoon hit Bangladesh while on the USS Kearsarge we were called to the somali coast line to aid in the recover my of a Dutch cargo ship that was taken hostage by pirates, I had awoken that morning and was heading out to the smoke deck when I saw the most stunning barren desert Coast line, confused because the prior night we had been in the Mediterranean and the scenery was much different. I found out shortly when the captain came across the ships general intercom system aka the 1 MC and informed us that we had been tasked to assist with anti piracy operations off the coast of somalia and gave us a brief summary of what we were up against. Shortly there after the ship was called to general quarters and my new view was of the cargo vessel much closer then I'd ever imagined we'd get to a civilian vessel underway and sure enough we could see on board a few local err fisherman and there fishing equipment AK brand. We had gone to GQ because they had said some not so nice things over the radio to us during negotiations and also put a few dings into are hull with there fishing equipment.

Shortly there after some nice folks from Scout sniper platoon took to are mast and assisted them with ventilating there hot headed temper.

I have one other pirate story, but I'll save it for another post