The Coast Guard Cutter Waesche returns to its homeport at Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., after 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)