Amazing Footage of the Rescue Swimmer Who Jumped Into a Superstorm | GQ 

Nobody cares about the coast guard until they need em

Not true, us grunts know. Coasties > Squids all day, everyday.

Its funny you say that because Navy and Coast Guard rescue swimmers up until recently went through the exact same rescue swimmer school after aircrew can school and even roomed together in the same room in the BEQ. One of my instructors was Coast Guard. However i would be wrong in saying that in the fleet it is also the same. Navy swimmers for the most part are crewman and the rescue swimmer part is secondary. Has it turns out there isnt that many planes going down in the ocean for us to get the call that often but when it does you need someone that knows how. Coast Guard primary mission is just that to pull people out that need help. Drunk surfer, folks on vacation, olympic swimmer with a cramp or a 747 that crashed in the ocean. No matter time or weather they will come for you but if all this occured in the past its a decent chance that coast guard rescue swimmer partner pushing that concrete block across the bottom of the pool was in the Navy. Just saying

Adrian Woodard, a 747 doesn’t just crash into the ocean. I’m an aviation enthusiast and I know that it does happen. But when it happens it’s not a controlled landing, even if it is it will most of the time end up in fiery catastrophe scene. No pilot who has enough control of the plane to ditch the plane would ditch it on water unless they’re running out of fuel or something with no other options. TL;DR No plane would land there with good control, most likely ending in an explosion like ‘landing’.

"Because even the Navy needs heroes"

Jorge Mendez it’s a superpuma can fly in any conditions

Get a new joke

That’s an original one😉

Julio Blind, I wouldn’t consider a crew with balls of steel being ‘a condition’.

lol. true that!

Standard military pay......

No we got paid more than that. You got automatic e4 after graduating RSS. Plus you got flight given you got your hours every month. Depending on the situation you could also get hazard duty pay.

Thanks

Id do it again for free if they feed me and bought my dr pepper and clothes.

heli tack Originally politicians were never supposed to be paid. Take all their pay and raise he all military pay.

Billy Bob well I took it as he did rescue swimming in the past and now he's alive and onto something else. I think you read it wrong but I'm no English pro 😊

TilemanSD no one asked about your son, did you just come to this video to say that ?

Noah H no asked you to mock this guy but here you are

the guy with gills yes, there is no need to thank me. For I am just a normal citizen who wants people to know how dumb they sound

Army vet here. Thanks to your son for his service.

So that others may live

@@scotrule6128 "So others may live" is the USCG rescue swimmer motto. "That others may live" is the motto of the USAF Pararescue airmen or "PJs".

Oh calm down

So that others may live. Doc

@Justin credible I think you'll find its probably to do with SOS save our souls ,so it collecting lost souls as reapers collect souls ,dunno why you'd associated you'd think otherwise ,murbid comments shows no pride in people who selflessly go out into the worst storms known to save and preserve life of another

The RS most likely stayed on scene with them.

Freakin right brothers!

Tim Rohrbach same all over this is very cool to watch

The Medal of Honor is a combat medal. They would have been eligible for the Gold or Silver Lifesaving Medal or the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Did you do it?

@AvalancheCleo unfortunately hurt my knee on an off-base run. Wait time for school was unknown at the time so I switched rates

@@suppaduppa5 Oh I'm sorry to hear that.

looks like he was telling him to press down on the carrier for some reason but idk

I guess to keep the line tight to help the winch?

Young lad here has never had a bump or a line lmao

I think the basket was stuck so he made the helicopter go down so the basket would jolt up and in

What was happening was the Pilot was bumping down the hoist cable via a switch he has on his flt controls up front in the cockpit. The helo hoist system could have experienced a malfunction of some sort (which was mentioned the cable was fraying if that was the first helo) or the Flt Mechanic running the hoist was not able to lower the hoist cable once the basket was inside the helo. He should of had a hand held, remote pendant to operate the hoist unless he was in a situation where he could not use it.

Sadly they'ed would just accuse him of white privilege and racism and ask why wasn't it a black man that rescued the survivors.

Bro the job of a rescue swimmer is to jump into the water. Do we say now every USCG swimmer gets a courage award?

You said it

Kaepernick does not pretend to be a hero. You are comparing apples and oranges. Kaepernick is simply making a point that badly needs to be made, about the persistence of racial prejudice in the US as a whole and racial bias by law enforcement in the US. Millions of Americans - not just blacks - support what he is doing. It Get over yourself.

An entitled athlete complaining about getting benched by pretending to care about racism.

Im curious to know why he didnt stay on scene with the last 3 stranded victims? It is possible command did not allow it though. I would have wanted to stay.

LaughTooHard No, there has been and there are female rescue swimmers.

Awesome. I'm sure many have trained at Cape D, but have there ever been any women assigned there? I've crossed the bar hundreds of times, so I completely understand the brutalness of the conditions and what you folks are up against.

Can’t speak for cape d but as for rotary wing swimmers yes.

Thanks for the info. Good luck to you!

@@laughtoohard9655 The simple answer is yes. Every job in the Coast Guard is open to anyone who can pass the qualifications.

The movie was fiction. It was based on the training the rescue swimmers go through with the exception of the whole "drop 'em five miles offshore and make them swim in BS." Also, I don't think the Coast Guard would send a senior chief petty officer out on a flight like that. When you get that high up the chain, you're tied to a desk.