EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN – The Coast Guard Cutter Diligence, homeported in Wilmington, North Carolina, rendezvous with the Coast Guard Cutter Sherman, homeported in Honolulu, Jan. 9, 2017. Both cutters are on counter narcotics missions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Diligence and Sherman are both on Eastern Pacific patrols conducting alien migrant interdiction operations, domestic fisheries protection, search and rescue, counter-narcotics and other Coast Guard missions at great distances from shore keeping threats far from the U.S. mainland. (FOR RELEASE U.S. Coast Guard photo Chief Warrant Officer Allyson E.T. Conroy)