Lt. Andrew Constant, a junior officer aboard the Coast Guard Polar Star, speaks with the bridge while standing the engineering watch, ensuring the safe operation of the cutter’s power plant systems and other essential equipment, Jan. 6, 2017. Constant is one of more than 140 crewmembers that oversee the safe operation of the cutter while deployed away from their homeport of Seattle. Wash.

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