OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM, US Coast Guard Photo

NORTH ARABIAN GULF (April 7, 2003)--Seaman Apprentice Brett O. Davidson, 20, of Orlando Fl., works a line onboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Adak, homeported in Sandy Hook, NJ., as the Polish Naval ship Kontradmiral X Czernicki passes by in the North Arabian Gulf off the coast of Iraq April 10, 2003. The Adak is one of four 110 foot patrol boats in the Gulf region in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom - the first time Coast Guard patrol boats have been deployed to a theater of war since Vietnam. USCG photo by PA1 Tom Sperduto