Harriet Lane was commissioned in May 1984 and has served the Coast Guard and the nation with distinction; conducting Coast Guard and national defense missions from Maine to South America and even into the Pacific Northwest. In 1994, as the Commander of Operation Able Manner forces, she directed the rescue of thousands of Haitian and Cuban migrants flowing across the Windward Passage and Florida Straits toward U.S. shores. During this mass migration, Harriet Lane's crew saved over 2,400 migrants, directed 15 cutters, an aerostat and multiple aircraft. She has twice been Present day Harriet Lane a key U.S. participant in the annual UNITAS multi-national exercise with South American navies, in 1994 and 1997. In 1995, Harriet Lane conducted a trial Alaska patrol to determine the feasibility of