This is Scott Ruskan, the US Coast Guard hero who saved 165 campers from the floods at Camp Mystic. He's 26 years old, and this was his first mission.
This is Scott Ruskan, the US Coast Guard hero who saved 165 campers from the floods at Camp Mystic. He's 26 years old, and this was his first mission.
Even during an awful tragedy like this, heroes like him inspire hope.
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Good for him, but isn't that his job? Do we have to be thankful when people do their jobs? Isn't that what we all do?! Do they want to give him a participation ribbon or something? Not dissing the guy, at least someone did their job, just saying. Don't fall for the distraction propaganda. Fight the power.
Nobody swims into a flooding river for the shitty pay, dude.
Dude, shut the fuck up, nobody asked you.
I think it's a sharp contrast with the cops that let a school shooting happen while they were outside, for example
Yes, we should expect people to do their jobs. In an ideal world, that is. This world is far from ideal where we have ICE, trump, shit cops, etc.
1000x this. I have two uncles who are retired USCG and a few other family members who volunteered with the USCG Auxiliary. I’ve met a USCG helo pilot as well as a number of small boat crew. What these people train for and the conditions they can operate in would make the vast majority of us (including cops) run in fear. We’re talking flying a helicopter into hurricane force winds, rescue swimmers jumping into 20 foot waves, etc. all to rescue a boat full of complete strangers. Then there are the surf boat crews that will pilot a 47 foot lifeboat into similar conditions. Those boats are actually designed to roll over 360 degrees so that they’ll self-right if a wave rolls them over.
I have the utmost respect for all of these people who regularly put themselves in harms way to help rescue others.
I wanted to reference Uvalde myself but figured it would pop up in the comments!
some people criticized, what about the other rescuers, civilians that also helped out. i think MSMs only did it because he was part of the services and white(also FOX was one of the msm that interviewed him first.)
Let's call it what it is: propaganda
They trotted out this story the moment the death toll hit 80, and wouldn't you know it, this one guy saved DOUBLE that number of people. So really, we should be thanking this guy and praising the coast guard, right?
Not thinking about the fact that this was a preventable disaster directly resulting from the government spending cuts to critical weather monitoring services because they dont want to have climate change reported on.
yes it was propaganda, hence why they dint interview the poc that saved people.
Do we have to be thankful when people do their jobs?
Only if your parents raised you to be decent I suppose.
If a paramedic saves my life, I am very thankful to them. I don’t care that the only reason they were there is because they’re paid to be there, humanitarian work on all levels deserves acknowledgement.
Its hope posting, its the theme of the community. You can't always focus on the depressing stuff. Its a nice balance to focus on the good things people are doing as well.
When the standard for the military is killing people, I think saving your fellow citizens deserves an applause doesn't it you fucking rat bastard?
Actually, the standard for the coast guard, of which this fellow belongs, is to rescue people. Great job kid. Let's not lose sight of the problem.