New Ships -- but an Old Coast Guard Tradition. Manning new destroyer escorts on convoy routes over the globe, Coast Guardsmen carry on an old tradition -- saving lives at sea. Here, a patient is unstrapped from a litter preparatory for medical treatment after having been moved from his ship to the Coast Guard-manned DE in mid-ocean.

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Keywords: 17-a2-187, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg