In my conversation with the superintendant of the Mount Rainier National Park about recovering the bodies of the six missing climbers I told him the U.S. Marines always risk their lives to recover their dead. He made fun of the marines.
I then told him the U.S. Coast Guard has a saying: "You have to go out but you don't have to return." He told me the Coast Guard no longer believes that. I disagreed.
As I am writing this two U.S. Coast Guard cutters are heading into the eye of Hurricane Joaquin and fighting 30foot seas and 140mph winds in their search for the missing container ship El Faro and 33crew members.
In the words of U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Commander Sonata: "...we were just pushing the envelope. We were just fighting to get to the scene."
"You have to go out but you don't have to return."
The U. S. Coast Guard is well aware that their mission tragically will be a recovery mission.
Without menesis-malice
Mountaintop Sea Ministries, International
Captain Bill Schweitzer, mountaineer, missionary
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