The deck force aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Fir, a 225-foot Sea-going Buoy Tender, lowers a Zodiac rigid-hulled inflatable boat into the Pacific Ocean near Warrenton, Ore., as part of a joint-agency operation involving the U.S. Army 10th Special Forces Group, June 22, 2016.
Coast Guard crewmembers aboard the Fir and from Air Station Astoria participated in the culminating operation of a 3-week long exercise that concludes at Camp Rilea in Warrenton.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read.