A Coast Guard member, assigned to Coast Guard Cutter Waesche, embraces his daughter after returning home from a 106-day deployment, at Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., Nov. 22, 2015. During the deployment, Waesche's crew completed two weeks of weapons system testing and certification, patrolled the Arctic in support of Operation Arctic Shield, and enforced federal fisheries laws and safety regulations in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea. (Courtesy photo by Meaghan Hurley)

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