Chief Petty Officer Dennis Tompkins is greeted by his family at Coast Guard Base Seattle after the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star returned from Operation Deep Freeze, March 21, 2014. The crew members of Polar Star returned to Seattle after a 108-day deployment to Antarctica where they broke out navigable shipping lanes through 12 miles of ice in McMurdo Sound. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jordan Akiyama)
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