Like Trump, he suggested the certification of Biden’s victory was an existential crisis for the country and used rhetoric that alluded to violence.
Giuliani also spoke at the rally in front of the White House that preceded the Jan. In January the committee issued subpoenas to Giuliani and other members of Trump’s legal team who filed bogus legal challenges to the 2020 election that fueled the lie that race had been stolen from the former president.
While this crew does everything it can to save lives, the Coast Guard urges families to not encourage loved ones to take to the sea on what could be a deadly journey. MORE NEWS: Americans Expected To Spend Record Amount For Mother’s Day This Year “We call them our little “morale umbrellas.” They’re tropical, just reminders to maybe have some fun in the cockpit,” she laughed.
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So, we loaded a parachute survival bag full of our own like, water, food, what not, threw it down to them.”įor the crew, it’s all in a day’s work and while their awesome responsibility is always top of mind, they have little reminders never far from sight in the cockpit to boost spirits when the job gets tough, small tropical umbrellas. “We didn’t have enough in the survival equipment we bring on board. He remembers a specific instance when he was not on a rescue mission but came across people in need. But that’s not always the case and depending what they find, sometimes the crew has to improvise. He finds no sign of castaways, just a wrecked boat that’s been there a while.
On this flight, Drop Master Joshua Shirley is taking a closer look at Cay Sal, a lonely island in the Straits. Sometimes during the flight, they open up the back hatch of the aircraft either to get a better look at something down below or send down life-saving equipment. “Stuff happens all the time and you can’t really do anything about it, but if you can put yourself in a place where you can, it gives you a little bit of hope,” she said. “It’s nice to know that, ‘Hey, maybe I can make a difference, maybe I can find this person, maybe I can help them out,” said Lt. Gomez and the others know from experience that seconds count. READ MORE: Miami-Dade PD Holds Annual Memorial Service To Remember Fallen Law Enforcement Members With the sea the way it was, they were going to die,” he said. “We saw a boat almost fully submerged and there were ten people on that boat and they were all like halfway through with water,” Gomez said. It’s not the first time Gomez has spotted people in dire need. So far, this fiscal year, 3,897 have been interdicted, compared to 1,527 in all of fiscal 2021. So far, in fiscal 2022, 1,546 Cuban migrants have been interdicted at sea, that’s up from 838 the year before.
In the Florida Straits, the Coast Guard picked up 49 Cuban migrants just last weekend alone. “It’s looking for a needle in a haystack essentially and it’s hard to find what we’re looking for sometimes,” Garza said. Mission system operators Shawn Garza and Wilfredo Gomez discovered those migrants on their radar screens. “Looks like it’s made out of metal siding, some wood and either an umbrella or parachute as a sail,” Lt. It didn’t take long before radar showed a small boat about 25 miles Southeast of Marathon. “We’re all humans at the end of the day and our fellow human beings are willing to put themselves in that condition, packed so tightly on a boat, I think few of us in the United States could imagine doing that and what those conditions are like,” said Lt. READ MORE: Florida City Student Gets Bullied By School Mate, Then Attacked By Bully’s Mom