Coast Guardsman Saves Nearly 200 People

[Joneslab]

Absolute damn American hero right here.

https://x.com/EODHappyCaptain/status/1942304882175926633

[TrueblueCATfan]

Agreed 100%...this whole story is just so heartbreaking 💔

[capcat]

That’s an amazing # of people for one man to save. Reminds me of Hurricane Katrina when the Coast Guard Station had been destroyed and the underfunded Coast Guard had to keep going back to repair their helicopters and go back in to save more people. They were named “People of the Year”.

My son was a Coastie and wanted to be near this flooding in case he could help.

[old man]

That’s an amazing # of people for one man to save. Reminds me of Hurricane Katrina when the Coast Guard Station had been destroyed and the underfunded Coast Guard had to keep going back to repair their helicopters and go back in to save more people. They were named “People of the Year”.

My son was a Coastie and wanted to be near this flooding in case he could help.

I was not in the Coast Guard, but I was Asst NCOIC of security in Viet Nam for 6 months at a CG radar station. I lived on the station with them. They were some good people.

[capcat]

I was not in the Coast Guard, but I was Asst NCOIC of security in Viet Nam for 6 months at a CG radar station. I lived on the station with them. They were some good people.

He was on the USCGC Mellon, which may have been in service when you were in Vietnam. Decommissioned in 2020 after 52 years of service.

[old man]

He was on the USCGC Mellon, which may have been in service when you were in Vietnam. Decommissioned in 2020 after 52 years of service.

I was at Tan My LORAN station, north of Hue. They provided radar for planes and ships to navigate by. No GPS back then.

[capcat]

I was at Tan My LORAN station, north of Hue. They provided radar for planes and ships to navigate by. No GPS back then.

Your service is appreciated!

[KCKUKFan]

Incredible story. Hero.

[Old School]

The Coast Guard is usually thought of for other things (patrols, anti-smuggling and interdiction operations, law enforcement, search and rescue, life saving, disaster relief, etc.) but they fulfilled significant roles in Vietnam, and other conflicts.

Coast Guardsmen, including rescue swimmers, made it through choppy seas, mines, artillery, and sustained machine gun fire, with incredible precision and timing, to land American, British, and Canadian assault forces on the Normandy beaches on D Day, and they rescued hundreds of soldiers who otherwise would’ve drowned in the channel. A lot of that rescue swimming took place under heavy and sustained machine gun, mortar, and artillery fire. They also evacuated the wounded under fire. The Coast Guard did the same thing numerous times in the Pacific, and in places like North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. Coast Guard ships destroyed and captured numerous German and even Japanese submarines and other vessels while protecting America’s coasts and convoys.

There are videos out there of Coast Guard rescues in incredibly violent seas and storms that make Hollywood action scenes look calm.

[Spiritof96]

Absolute damn American hero right here.

https://x.com/EODHappyCaptain/status...04882175926633

Agreed.

Exemplar of what is best about all of our branches of the Military.

[Old School]

Agreed.

Exemplar of what is best about all of our branches of the Military.

That post makes me think of the episode of Band of Brothers focused on the medic, Eugene Roe, at Bastogne.

[OldBlueFart]

What is disturbing really is this young man was just doing his job and probably makes less than $75,000 a year. I had just finished reading how the NBA is about to get their first "1 million dollar a game" player. Booker and SGA are close.
Sorry, just can't see how we have let this happen. Our servicemen/women, police, firefighters all deserve much more than what we pay them but someone will try to justify a ball player making this kind of money while we gripe about the ones who truly protect us.