EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Sherman moves bales of cocaine from the cutter’s small boat to the cutter following an interdiction at sea, Jan. 18, 2017. Sherman 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 from the mainland. (FOR RELEASE Coast Guard photo by C

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EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Sherman moves bales of cocaine from the cutter’s small boat to the cutter following an interdiction at sea, Jan. 18, 2017. Sherman 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 from the mainland. (FOR RELEASE Coast Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer Allyson Conroy)

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