 Marines with a force reconnaissance platoon, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct a visit board search-seizure exercise aboard the USNS Matthew C. Perry during the MUSE training cycle for their certification exercise. Fast roping onto the deck, each FRP squad cleared a different section of the ship, locating and detaining the objective person of interest. VBSS is important to the MUSE operations because piracy is a real-world threat. If the MUSE were to encounter a real-world threat, we would be ready with all these training opportunities we get at a takedown vessel. After the FRP Marines completed their objective, they egressed to the USS Essex to continue the MUSE cert-ex and deployment in the Asia-Pacific region. Purple Jonathan Wright, USNS, Matthew C. Perry, at sea.