Petty Officer 1st Class James Ralls and Petty Officer 2nd Class Will Bass oversee buoy deck operations aboard the Coast Guard cutter Cypress in the Gulf of Mexico, April 1, 2019. The Cypress’ main operating area stretches along 900 miles of the Gulf Coast, from Apalachicola, Fl., to the Mexican border in Brownsville, Tx., where she is responsible for the maintenance of 117 floating aids to navigation. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Giles/Released)