"Whether he's maintaining a 41-foot Coast Guard boat or a 17-foot Chevy Caprice, Brown says that, 'Good enough is not good enough, and we must continually improve on what we have.'"
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"On Sept. 1, Dorval and his crew rescues 40 patients from a hospital that had become flooded after the levees had broken."
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"The 31-foot sailboat Paradise called the Coast Guard for help after their sails were ripped and their anchor was lost due to the high winds."
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"A woman had jumped off New Bern's high-rise Neuse River Bridge, about an 80-foot drop to the water. Miraculously, she was still alive."
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On the clear, crisp morning of Dec. 17, the crewmembers of the Coast Guard Cutter George Cobb helped load an 1,100 pound sea lion onto the deck of the buoy tender. Their mission today would be to transport "Captain Hook" 60 miles off the coast of California to a sea lion habitat near San Clemente Island.
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The Coast Guard rescued a black swan on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2009, after it was stuck to the ice and was unable to free itself. A team of four guardians from Station Lorain, Ohio, suited up in their MSD900 dry-suits to go out and assist the ailing animal.
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