HONOLULU (AP) - The Pearl Harbor-based guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon is due to deploy to the Western Pacific.
The Navy says the ship's 280 sailors are expected to work with coalition partners also deployed to the region.
The vessel is scheduled to depart Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on Wednesday.
Last year, the Chung-Hoon and the Philippine Coast Guard practiced boarding and searching vessels in the Sulu Sea during when the destroyer deployed to the region.
The destroyer provided support for U.S. and Philippine counterinsurgency efforts against militants in the southern part of the Philippines. It also participated in exercises with other U.S. forces off Guam and in drills with the Singapore navy.
