Lonely Vigilance in the Far North. On the deck of a Coast Guard combat cutter nosing through the ice floes of the Far North Atlantic, a Coast Guardsman stands his lonely watch. The hardy seamen, who draw duty in the North, protect a vital sector of America's defense. And they gaze form months on end at the beautiful, if monotonous, every-shifting pattern of ice.

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Keywords: 17-a2-171, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg