Following an eight-month deployment, Sailors aboard HDMS Absalon (L-16) are returning home to Denmark. Absalon spent the last time of their deployment participating in Combined Task Force (CTF) 151, a multinational task force conducting counterpiracy operations to detect and deter piracy in and around the Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and Red Sea. During her deployment and her time with CTF 151, Absalon made contact with more than 80 suspected pirates during the deployment period…