PACIFIC OCEAN (March 17, 2021) Boatswain’s Mate 1st Class Benjamin Kaufman directs landing for a MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter aboard the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1), March 17, 2021. Freedom is deployed to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations to support Joint Interagency Task Force South's mission, which includes counter-illicit drug trafficking missions in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Richard Cho)