There are some people in each service who have quiet careers and thankfully see no violence. There are some people in each service who face the toughest trials and make the ultimate sacrifice.
Read the transcript
In Memoriam / Of just a few of the Coasties killed in America’s wars / William Best – Drowned rescuing crew of torpedoed steamer on convoy to Gibraltar in WWI / Jimmy Crotty – Fought with Marines on Corregidor; died in a POW camp after Bataan Death March / Douglas Munro – Died evacuating 500 Marines from the beach at Guadalcanal / John Pritchard – Lost in storm on Greenland Icecap rescuing crew of crashed B-17 / Gerald W. Stuart – Died rescuing Navy airmen shot down in Chinese waters during Korean War / Jack Rittichier – Shot down flying combat rescue mission for downed Marine in Laos / Eddie Hernandez – Killed in firefight on Rach Nang River while scouting for fire support mission / Nathan Bruckenthal – Killed by suicide bomb while boarding suspicious boat near Khawr Al Amay, Iraq / You can joke all you want that the Coast Guard isn’t the ‘real military,’ but when the time comes, we die alongside you