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...peace. "We are deployed every day," says Allen. "We fly every day. We respond to oil spills every day." Also, since the Coast Guard is the only military branch allowed to perform law-enforcement duties, it is accustomed to engaging with civilians. In one day, a Coast Guard boat crew off of California might arrest as many people as it saves...
Throughout the flooded streets of New Orleans, if Coast Guard boat crews lost radio communication, they still knew what to do. "We give extraordinary, life-and-death responsibilities to 2nd class petty officers," says former Coast Guard Commandant James Loy, now retired and a senior counselor at the Cohen Group, a Washington consulting firm. Anna Steel, 24, a Coast Guard reservist from St. Louis, Mo., began navigating her 16-ft. skiff through New Orleans neighborhoods three days after the storm hit. She and her crewman brought 35 people to dry land at a highway on-ramp marked, appropriately enough, Elysian...
...movie. Unfortunately, even Schaefer’s master camerawork cannot sustain the audience to the end of “Stay,” which is not really an ending at all, but instead a romanticized and flavorless cliffhanger. Overall, “Stay” misses the boat by throwing together a storyline that attempts to combine “The Sixth Sense” and “Memento,” but falls far short of both...
...challenge, the frustrated team members had zero zebras to show for their efforts and had even admitted defeat on their official blog. Had the team succeeded, their anonymous sponsor—“The Contender”—who members say would have purchased a boat for the members and their striped friends. Following a cruise to raise money for hurricane and earthquake victims, the boat would have been sold, with proceeds going to The Contender, who assured Team Zebra that half would be donated to charity, members told The Crimson last week. The Contender, like...
...division’s finish was especially strong, as Lynch and Johnson placed in the top four in each of the final five races of the competition. “It was a very, very breezy weekend, so we had an advantage because compared to the other boats we were a little lighter and a little stronger, and able to keep the boat fairly flat,” Lynch said. “It’s a very different game depending on how much breeze there is, and given that it was so breezy, Clay...