Crew members board the Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton, the first National Security Cutter on the East Coast, during a commissioning ceremony held at the Charleston-Union Pier Terminal in Charleston, S.C., Saturday. The NSC is the most technologically-sophisticated cutter in the Coast Guard fleet, capable of performing homeland security, law enforcement and national defense missions around the globe, but operations will be focused predominantly in the Western Hemisphere. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Walter Shinn)