In this photo released by the Coast Guard, crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell perform a couple of hot in-flight refueling runs both to qualify new crewmembers and to keep current the others qualifications April 6, 2009.
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell is part of the USS Boxer Expeditionary Strike Group and is on a Western Pacific and Persian Gulf deployment. Boutwell's deployment will take nearlysix months and cover a route circumnavigating the globe. (Coast Guard photo/by Petty Officer 3rd Class David R. Marin)