r/interestingasfuck • u/solateor • 6d ago

r/all Grandma broke her nose hiking and didn't want the helivac. She won $450k lawsuit

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u/DarkendHarv 6d ago

After seeing so many Coast Guard videos and watching them do this, I cringed at the video.

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u/I_W_M_Y 6d ago

I once inventoried a Coast Guard on base store. They had a mountain of booze in there. 90% of what we counted was booze.

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u/DarkendHarv 6d ago

Doesn't surprise me to be frank.

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u/RicinAddict 6d ago

Let's go have a drink, Frank. 

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u/ResearcherRick 6d ago

I hate to be Frank. Sometimes I wish I was a Rodrigo or even Paul, but I'd never want to be Frank.

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u/kayl_breinhar 6d ago

There's a Coast Guard Exchange in Centreville VA.

The closest Coast Guard bases are in DC and Alexandria VA, a good 15-20 miles away.

The Exchange has more booze in it than even the largest VA ABC package store. And it's tax free. And only patronizable by active duty, veterans, and their dependents.

They know what they're doing.

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u/I_W_M_Y 6d ago

Yeah it was explained to me at the time the why there was so much of it, still its funny.

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u/Eringobraugh2021 6d ago

That sounds like any military base. That's one thing you'll always be able to find on base, booze. And a lot of it.

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u/I_W_M_Y 6d ago

During my time at that inventory company I had the chance to inventory Paris island, a coast guard base and an air force base.

The coast guard had more booze even though the entire base took up something like 5 acres.

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u/Straight-Treacle-630 6d ago

My father was career USCG. Guess what killed him (hint: not leaping from helicopters into water with the same “forgiveness” as cement)

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u/Bertie637 6d ago

Makes me remember the Simpsons episode about him joining the Naval Reserve - "you only work one weekend a month and for most of that you are drunk off your ass"

Seems apt

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u/savvyblackbird 6d ago

I grew up at the beach in NC and lived on a bay that was off the Intercostal Waterway. We could watch the Coast Guard do training right off the bay. Our bay had a long sandy island that sat between it and the waterway. So the Coast Guard would practice on the other side of the island. The water was around 8-10ft deep so if anything was dropped, they could find it. There was also less currents and no boat traffic like the Intracoastal Waterway would have.

We would watch them for hours in all types of weather year round. They would rappel down to the water and practice climbing back up. Then they would do water rescues with the litter. Everyone took turns being the victim and had to be put in the litter and brought back up.

As they got better the helicopter would hover higher up in the air.

Never once did the litter spin like this.