Line handlers on the pier at Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., prepare to moor the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche, homeported on Coast Guard Island, after the crew completed a 14-week deployment, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. Waesche's crew routinely conducts counter-narcotics, homeland security, alien migrant interdiction operations, domestic fisheries protection, search and rescue and other Coast Guard missions from South America to the Bering Sea. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Loumania Stewart)