Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) teams from Africa and Europe finished a week's worth of Maritime Interdiction Operations (MIO) training June 8 by conducting compliant boardings on USS Simpson (FFG 56) during Phoenix Express 2006. Two officers and two enlisted members of the Simpson VBSS team prepared formal training lessons and devised practical training plans to train Algerian, Moroccan and Spanish VBSS teams during the tactical phase of Phoenix Express 2006. “We’re the perfect ship to provide this training because this is what we’ve been doing for the past five months,” said Cmdr. John Uhl, commanding officer of Simpson. Simpson joined USS Saipan (LHA 2) in Rota…