A Coast Guard member assigned to the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche, embraces his kids after returning home from a 14-week deployment aboard the Waesche, at Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., 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.