Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Castonguay, an operations specialist assigned to the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche, embraces his daughter, Amanda Castonguay, 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 Stewrat)