Posted: 05/01/2009
A harpoon missile is launched from the guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook during the sinking exercise of UNITAS Gold in the Atlantic Ocean, April 29, 2009. This is the 50th anniversary of UNITAS, a multinational exercise to provide opportunities for participating nations to increase their collective ability to counter illicit maritime activities that threaten regional stability. U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Patrick Grieco