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Trimaran Rescue 

A Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., MH-60J Jayhawk helicopter crew rescues four people from a disabled sailboat more than 300 miles southeast of New Jersey, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008.
Watchstanders at the Rescue Coordination Center in Portsmouth received a satellite telephone call from the crew of the High Flyer, a 36-foot trimaran, Thursday night, requesting assistance after their vessel's sails and rudder became disabled.
The helicopter crew and an HC-130J Hercules airplane crew were dispatched to the vessels location. While en route the helicopter crew made a short refueling stop aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer, before continuing to the disabled vessel.
The helicopter crew arrived at the vessels location at approximately 8:45 a.m. Friday and hoisted the crew of the High Flyer.
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Own The Guardian 

A must own....A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's "A" School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice. Rescue missions punctuate the beginning and end of the story with the training sessions the center of the film.

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Quillayite River Logger Rescue 

Coast Guard Group Port Angeles, Wash., received a request for assistance from Clallam County Dispatch at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008, for an injured logger one mile east from the mouth of the Quillayute River.
A Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Port Angeles launched to airlift the injured logger.
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Coast Guard Aviation Books 

Some excellent books about Coast Guard Aviation.

So Others May Live: Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death

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I Never Liked Those C-130's Anyway

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Wonderful Flying Machines: A History of U.S. Coast Guard Helicopters

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U.S. Coast Guard Aircraft Since 1916

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Coast Guard Rescue and Patrol Aircraft

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When I Look to the Sky 

When I look to the Sky- Coast Guard

Coast Guard video of Katrina Rescue set to When I look to the Sky by TRAIN Very moving

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The Coast Guard on Squidoo 

United States Coast Guard
The Coast Guard is the nations oldest continuous seagoing service. Founded in 1789 by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton to prevent smuggling, it has gone through many changes. As the world has changed, so has the Coast Guard. Today over 40,000 Coast Guard men and women serve around the globe.
Coast Guard Rescues
Ever since man has gone down to the sea in ships, great risks have been run to rescue those in danger. This lens is dedicated to those men and women who run that risk.
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