The Coast Guard Cutter Waesche’s (WMSL 751) Commanding Officer Capt. Jason H. Ryan (center right) watch with crewmembers from the bridge as the crew prepares to depart from their Alameda, Calif., homeport for a Western Pacific patrol, Aug. 22, 2020. Waesche is one of four 418-foot national security cutters homeported in Alameda, and capable of deploying from the Bering Sea to the Eastern Pacific Ocean to the Western Pacific. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Matthew S. Masaschi