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A woman and her daughter embrace on the deck of the USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110), an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer homeported in Honolulu, Hawaii, as the ship approaches the pier on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu Aug. 28, 2024. Joint Rescue Coordination Center Honolulu watchstanders received an emergency position indicating radio beacon alert from a French-flagged sailboat beset by weather 925 miles offshore Honolulu and requested the William P. Lawrence crew rescue the mother, child and their pets. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Kevin Cooper)