Operation Nanook 2010
In August 2010 the Guided Missile Destroyer USS Porter and the Alder participated in Operation Nanook 2010 in Baffin Bay and the Davis Straits. This was the fourth annual Operation Nanook organized by the Canadian Government, but it was the first to host foreign vessels.
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