CGC Waesche returns after 79-day patrol [Image 3 of 5]

ALAMEDA, CA, UNITED STATES

03.01.2015

Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jordan Akiyama 

U.S. Coast Guard District 11

Petty Officer 2nd Class Sarah Rich, a storekeeper aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche, a 418-foot National Security Cutter homeported out of Alameda, Calif., embraces her daughter, Taylor Jackson, along the pier of Coast Guard Island, March 1, 2015. The crew aboard Waesche completed a 79-day patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean where they disrupted Transnational Organized Crime networks through joint inter-agency counter-drug operations seizing nearly 1,400 pounds 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 18:01
• Photo ID: 1792192
• VIRIN: 150301-G-ED165-003
• Resolution: 3344x2388
• Size: 2.21 MB
• Location: ALAMEDA, CA, US