“Smugglers try to blend in with existing transit routes and legitimate shipping patterns. By having ships out on patrol, NATO builds up knowledge of the normal patterns, facilitating the identification of anomalies that may be related to illicit activity.

“Outstanding logistics support from all NATO countries is vital to ensuring the counter-terrorism task group remains at sea for greater periods of time, thus providing better coverage of the sea lanes and deterrence of shipping related to terrorist activity,”NATO’s Allied Command Operations (ACO) said in a release.

‘This company underwent all the training levels and was highly praised by the NATO experts. Today, they are declared for participation in international military cooperation events. This year, they’ve already participated in Sea Breeze 2013 and Farvater Mury 2013. Steadfast Jazz – 2013 shows that the company personnel are well trained and capable to accomplish the tasks assigned,” stressed Col. Igor Voronchenko.