U.S. Coast Guardsmen assigned to the cutter USCGC Richard Etheridge (WPC 1102) unload approximately 1,500 pounds of cocaine during Operation Martillo in St. Petersburg, Fla., March 17, 2014. Operation Martillo is a joint, interagency and multinational collaborative effort to deny transnational criminal organizations air and maritime access to the littoral regions of the Central American isthmus.