Petty Officer 1st Class Kevin Oakes, an assistant engineer of the watch and electrician’s mate in the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star’s engineer department, communicates with another watchstander over the radio while underway in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, Jan. 9, 2016. The engineer of the watch and assistant engineer of the watch monitor plany status from the icebreaker’s engineering control center. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Grant DeVuyst)
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