Chief Petty Officer Randy Whitehead, an information systems technician onboard the Coast Guard Cutter James, embraces his wife in Charleston, South Carolina, March 31, 2017. The James' crew returned home following a 60-day patrol where they contributed to the interdiction of 12 drug-smuggling vessels, detainment and subsequent arrest of 22 suspected drug smugglers and were responsible for the seizure of more than five tons of cocaine bound for the United States.

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