kodiak station search and rescue USCG
Operating in extremely grave circumstances, not every story has a happy ending.
17,500 miles per hour 160 miles above Earth. Mission Control received a signal that the heat shield, designed to prevent the capsule from burning up during reentry, was loose!
Friendship 7 mission John Glenn Astronaut
The fire threatened hundreds of homes, and multiple evacuations occurred.
Fighting forest fires and saving lives in the western mountains USFS
The Red Tail squadron the Idea and the Reality
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Seapower a Retrospective
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