Friends and family members wait for the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton to moor up as the cutter returns to its homeport in Alameda, Calif., Jan. 28, 2018. The Stratton crewmembers interdicted five suspected drug-smuggling vessels during a nearly two-month long counternarcotic patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Coast Guard

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