Rescue Warriors
The U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes
Since its founding more than two hundred years ago, the United States Coast Guard has rescued over a million people. On any given day, Coasties respond to 125 distress calls and save over a dozen lives. Yet despite having more than 50,000 active-duty and reserve members on every ocean and on our nation's coasts, great lakes, and rivers, most of us know very little about this often neglected but crucial branch of the military.In Rescue Warriors, award-winning journalist David Helvarg brings us into the daily lives of Coasties, filled with a salty maritime mix of altruism and adrenaline, as well as dozens of death-defying rescues at sea and on…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4299-8953-4
- EAN: 9781429989534
- Produktnummer: 22464227
- Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'022 KB
- Auflage: First Edition
- Abbildungen: Includes 14 black-and-white photographs throughout
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