Posted on Jul 27, 2022
Written in Blood: The Catastrophic Shipwreck that Prompted the Coast Guard’s Rescue Swimmer...
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Unfortunately, it often takes disaster and catastrophe to make processes and systems safer
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I have a friend who retired a Commander in the US Coast Guard. Guess the value of the Coast Guard will force me to stop ribbing him........................NAH
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Coastie Rescue Swimmers are their own brand of a special force, focuse on at sea rescues and their training is equally brutal though not focused on combat like the Rangers, SEALS, SF etc.
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LTC David Brown
I watched an Echo Race involving military teams. Teams participate in a grueling multi phase race over several days involving challenging terrain. One team was Coast Guard rescue swimmers. The Coasties really analyzed every members strengths and weaknesses and devised strategies to enhance the performance of the weakest member. There was a bike course , the weakest bike rider was the female member. The strongest riders hooked a tether to her bike to assist. For every obstacle they had a strategy to aid the weakest member. Other teams were Army, Air Force and Marines. Guess who won? I have always had a lot of respect Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers.
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PO1 Don Mac Intyre
The USCG Helicopter Rescue Swimmer Program started with Coasties starting their training at Pensacola Florida US Navy RS school. (Actually, for me, it started one year prior to going there, no grandfather clause for "old" ASM's) The Navy School was brutal. But we were trained the Navy way, to get pilots and crew out. The CG mission is getting, for the most part, civilians out of the water. Then came EMT school, and advanced RS school, cliff rescue, etc. At the beginning of the program we weren't treated very well by "the old guard", which in my mind only helped instill the " special forces" moniker we embraced.
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