From Seacoastonline

KITTERY, Maine — Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma returned Monday to its homeport at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard after a 42-day patrol conducting training and operations in the Caribbean Sea.

Tahoma’s crew spent the first two weeks of the patrol in Little Creek, Va., undergoing training. The crew prepared for a range of mission-critical operations during this period. The crew enhanced its proficiency in seamanship, damage control, engineering and medical casualty response. It also conducted a fueling-at-sea exercise with replenishment oiler USNS John Lenthall and a gunnery exercise with its .50-caliber machine guns.

Tahoma was subsequently deployed to the Windward Passage off Haiti to conduct migrant interdiction and counterdrug operations. Tahoma patrolled the operational area to detect and deter illegal migration while conducting at-sea boardings of vessels suspected of trafficking illegal contraband. Tahoma worked with its law enforcement partners in the Bahamas, and Coast Guard aviation assets and federal Drug Enforcement Agency agents from Operation Bahamas, Turks and Caicos.

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