 Visit Board Search and Seizure, or VBSS, is an important part to maintaining and enforcing maritime laws. During Carrot 2015, sailors work alongside their Indonesian counterparts to better understand each other's capabilities in this area. We learn a lot of things about boarding party teams today, and we compare between U.S. Navy do and our Navy do about the boarding party. The success of VBSS depends on teamwork. Any time you can train with another nation as far as seeing their tactics and how they do things, there's more than one way to search a room or a clear ship. So, getting a vast experience with the Singapore Navy, and we did with the Philippines and now with the Indonesian as well. A common theme in the Carrot exercise series is the development of cooperative maritime security capabilities that support security, stability and prosperity in the South and Southeast Asia regions. Petty Officer Sonja Wittner aboard USS Fort Worth.