EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN – Petty Officer 2nd Class Brandon Melchor, an operations specialist aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Sherman, plots waypoints using the alidade as the cutter heads out to sea, Jan. 9, 2017. Sherman, homeported in Honolulu, is on 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 U
EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN – Petty Officer 2nd Class Brandon Melchor, an operations specialist aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Sherman, plots waypoints using the alidade as the cutter heads out to sea, Jan. 9, 2017. Sherman, homeported in Honolulu, is on 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
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