Coast Guard Cutter returns home after 95-day deployment
Petty Officer 3rd Class, a maritime enforcement specialist aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf, embraces his son after returning from a 95-day deployment in the Eastern Pacific. The 126-person Alameda-based crew of Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf interdicted nine smuggling vessels, detained 22 suspected narcotraffickers, and seized over 20,000 pounds of illegal narcotics while deployed. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Loumania Stewart
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Photo by: Petty Officer 3rd Class Loumania Stewart |  VIRIN: 161026-G-FO999-002.JPG
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