A U.S. Coast Guardsmen aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Active aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Active, a 210-foot medium endurance Reliance-class cutter homeported in Port Angeles, Washington, oversees her crew and ensures the cutter is ready to get underway Saturday, May 12, 2018 Huatulco, Mexico, during an Eastern Pacific counter-narcotics patrol. The Active crew routinely conduct operations from South America to the Bering Sea conducting defense operations , alien migrant interdiction, fisheries protection, search and rescue, and other Coast Guard missions at great distances from shore keeping threats far from U.S. mainland. (U.S Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Michael De Nyse)