In August 2006, the destroyer was assigned to Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 as flagship.Milner, p. 327 In 2008 Iroquois, and were deployed to the waters off Somalia as part of CTF 150, the multi-national task force that concerned itself with drug and people smuggling and piracy in the region.Tracy, pp. 277, 279 In 2012, Iroquois was among the Canadian warships sent to the Caribbean Sea to help stem the flow of illegal drugs into North America as part of Operation Caribbe.
