Petty Officer 2nd Class James DuVall, an operations specialist assigned to the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche, embraces his son, Paxton DuVall, after returning home from a 14-week deployment, 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 America to the Bering Sea. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Loumania Stewart)