CARIBBEAN SEA (May 8, 2021) The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Sioux City (LCS 11) conducts a bi-lateral maritime exercise with the Jamaican Defence Force Coast Guard patrol vessel HMJS George William Gordon, May 8, 2021. Sioux City 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 and eastern Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Marianne Guemo)