CGC Waesche returns after 79-day patrol [Image 1 of 5]

ALAMEDA, CA, UNITED STATES

03.01.2015

Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jordan Akiyama 

U.S. Coast Guard District 11

Tokuko Kerns and her family wait patiently along the pier on Coast Guard Island, for her husband, Lt. Cmdr. Corey Kerns, and the rest of the crew aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche, a 418-foot National Security Cutter homeported out of Alameda, Calif., to arrive home after a 79-day patrol, March 1, 2015. The crew of Waesche patrolled international waters off the coast of Central America, disrupting Transnational Organized Crime networks through joint inter-agency counter-drug operations seizing nearly 1,400lbs of cocaine with an estimated value of more than $22 million. (U.S. Coast Guard photos by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jordan Akiyama)

• Date Taken: 03.01.2015
• Date Posted: 03.01.2015 18:00
• Photo ID: 1792188
• VIRIN: 150301-G-ED165-001
• Resolution: 4891x3493
• Size: 4.56 MB
• Location: ALAMEDA, CA, US