Goodbye to the Great Gallatin - ATLANTIC

Cutter Gallatin's crew line the deck during the beginning of its decommissioning ceremony. In a decommissioning ceremony March 31, 2014 at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Charleston, S.C., the Coast Guard bid a fond farewell to its last East Coast-based high endurance cutter: the Cutter Gallatin that has served for more than 45 years. The decommissioning ceremony marks the retirement of a ship as a unit of the operating forces of the U.S. Coast Guard. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Lauren Jorgensen)