The guided-missile destroyer USS Howard leads a formation of US and Royal Thai Navy ships, flanked by the guided-missile frigate USS Reuben James and HTMS Phuttalertlanapalai and followed by HTMS Taksin, HTMS Khirirat, and HTMS Sukhothai as they transit the Gulf of Thailand during Cooperation Afloat and Readiness Training in Thailand in 2011.
