EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN – Seaman Kirk Monsay (right), a crewmember of the Coast Guard Cutter Sherman, supervises Seaman Michael Deangelis (left) as he learns how to drive the cutter, Jan. 11, 2017. Sherman, homeported in Honolulu, is on a counter narcotics mission in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Cutters like Sherman routinely conduct operations from South America to the Bering Sea conducting alien migrant interdiction operations, domestic fisheries protection, search and rescue, counter-narcotics and other Coast Guard missions at great distances from shore keeping threats far from the mainlan

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EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN – Seaman Kirk Monsay (right), a crewmember of the Coast Guard Cutter Sherman, supervises Seaman Michael Deangelis (left) as he learns how to drive the cutter, Jan. 11, 2017. Sherman, homeported in Honolulu, is on a counter narcotics mission in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Cutters like Sherman routinely conduct operations from South America to the Bering Sea conducting alien migrant interdiction operations, domestic fisheries protection, search and rescue, counter-narcotics and other Coast Guard missions at great distances from shore keeping threats far from the mainland. (FOR RELEASE Coast Guard photo Chief Warrant Officer Allyson Conroy)

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