Family members wait for the Sailors aboard the guided-missile frigate USS Hawes at Naval Station Norfolk. Hawes returned from a six-month deployment in the Carribean and Western Atlantic in support of Operation Carib Venture. This marks Hawes' first counter narcotics deployment to the U.S. Southern Command area of operations. Hawes also participated in several multi-national exercises with naval forces from Great Britain, Canada, Netherlands, France, Trinidad and Tobago (Coast Guard), Barbados and Colombia.