U.S. Coast Guardsmen assigned to medium endurance cutter USCGC Escanaba (WMEC 907) navigate alongside the cutter in a rubber response boat in the Atlantic Ocean Sept. 20, 2012, during Unitas Atlantic phase 53-12.
Unitas, Latin for "unity," is an annual U.S. Southern Command-sponsored, multinational naval exercise designed to enhance security cooperation and improve coalition operations between South American and U.S. maritime forces. (DoD photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Walter Shinn, U.S. Coast Guard/Released). Original public domain image from Flickr