Family, friends welcome the crew of the Aspen home
USCG File PhotoALAMEDA, Calif. — Following the Veteran’s Day holiday, family, friends and well-wishers welcomed back the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Aspen, a 225-foot buoy tender homeported at Yerba Buena Island, Calif., today.
The San Francisco-based cutter and its crew returned from a five and a half month deployment in support of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This is the longest...