The four people on board were rescued by the lifeboat on Sunday and a salvage operation on the vessel was underway on Monday.

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Over the course of this one-year tour, LTJG Middleton spent over 5, 000 hours underway in Iraqi waters and completed approximately 100 vessel boardings in order to ensure the security of coalition forces and assets off the coast of Iraq.

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