Editing United States Navy SEALs (section)

====''Maersk Alabama'' hijacking====
{{Main|Maersk Alabama hijacking}}
On 12 April 2009, in response to a hostage taking incident off the coast of [[Somalia]] by [[Somalian pirates]], three Navy SEALs from [[DEVGRU]] simultaneously engaged and killed the three pirates who were closely holding the hostage, Captain [[Richard Phillips (merchant mariner)|Richard Phillips]], of the freighter ship {{ship|MV|Maersk Alabama||2}}. The pirates and their hostage were being towed in a lifeboat approximately 100 yards behind {{USS|Bainbridge|DDG-96|6}} when each of the pirates were killed by a different [[DEVGRU]] sniper with a single shot to the head.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/08/ship.hijacked/index.html |publisher=CNN |title=U.S. warship near boat carrying pirates |date=9 April 2009}}</ref>