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will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of our country because we have no choice how realistic is Donald Trump's campaign promise we asked someone who would know is there a written plan on this now that I know if there's no memo if there's no plan is this fully baked we've done it before we have seen one estimate that says it would cost $88 billion to deport a million people a year I don't know if that's accurate or not is that what American taxpayers should expect what price do you put on National Security is

that worth it 60 Minutes has been reporting on the sanctions imposed on Russia since they invaded Ukraine tonight we track Russia oil tankers flouting those sanctions off the coast of Greece and hear how the Russian economy has actually grown since the start of the war so let's be let's be honest this is not the nose dive that I predicted two years ago on the bout comes a big one tou headd being a surfman is sometimes compared to being a Navy SEAL or in the army Special Forces but in truth this is a more exclusive Club

Isn't it nice reach Josh get him on board it is it's a there's a small number of us got a sad star B we're training for the opportunity to save a human life it's all the motivation you need I'm Leslie stall I'm Bill Whitaker I'm Anderson Cooper I'm Sharon alony I'm John wortheim I'm Cecilia Vega I'm Nora odonnell I'm Scott pelly those stories and more tonight on 60 Minutes with nine days until election day former president Trump has stepped up his attacks on the Biden Harris administration's record on illegal immigration and pledged that if elected

he'll conduct the largest deportation in American history there are more than 11 million undoc mented immigrants living in the United States about 3% of the population nearly 80% of them have lived in the country for a decade or more how realistic is this Mass deportation campaign promise what would be the human and financial cost we took these questions to one of the people Donald Trump has said would join him if he wins a second term Tom homman who led immigration enforcement during the first Trump Administration when thousands of Migrant children were separated from their parents

at the border I hear a lot of people say you know the talk of a mass deportation is racist it's uh is threatening to the Immigrant Community it's not threaten to the Immigrant Community it should be threatening to the illegal immigrant Community but on the heels of historic illegal immigration crisis that has to be done how you doing at the Republican National Convention this summer Tom homman was the proud pitchman of mass Deport I got a message to the millions of illegal aliens that Joe Biden's released in our country you better start packing now over

three decades he worked his way up from border patrolman to acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement the agency known as ice during the first year and a half of the Trump Administration this election cycle former president Trump has mentioned Mass deportation at nearly every rally will begin the largest deep portation operation in the history of our country because we have no choice what would the largest deportation in American history look like to you well let me tell you what's not going to be first it's not going to be a a mass sweep of neighborhoods

it's not going to be building concentration camps I've read it all it's ridiculous but if Mass deportation is not going to be as you said massive sweeps and concentration camps they'll be concentr they'll be targeted arest rest we'll know who we're going to arrest where we're most likely to find them based on numerous in you know investigative processes here's our message former president Trump's running mate JD Vance said it would be reasonable to deport a million people a year Trump's top immigration adviser Steven Miller told a conservative audience that Deportes would be removed from the

country in a massive military air operation so you grab illegal immigrants and then you move them to the staging grounds and that's where the planes are waiting for federal law enforcement to then move those illegals home you deputize the National Guard to carry out immigration enforcement Steven Miller said that this will involve large scale raids I I don't use the term raids but you're probably talking about worksite enforcement operations uh which this Administration pretty much stopped workplace enforcement that's a Roundup and that's going to be necessary worksite enforcement operation just not about people who's working

illegally in the country and companies that hire them that's going to undercut their competition that has you a citizen employee it's where we find a lot of trafficking case know women and children who are forced in a forc labor to pay off their smuggling fees a study by the American Immigration Council found that mass deportation could result in the removal of millions of construction hospitality and agriculture workers reducing the GDP by $1.7 trillion can you just limit it to criminals and national security threat though if I'm in charge this my priorities are Public Safety threats

and National Security threats first first implies others follow though right absolutely so game that out for me what's the scenario it's not okay to enter a country illegally which is a crime that's what drives illegal immigration when there's no consequences to Biden Harris ministration has proven this you can get to the Border turn yourselves in get released within 24 hours so you are carrying out a targeted enforcement operation Grandma's in the house she's undocumented she get arrested too depend which that the judge decide we're going to remove people that that judge has already deported homan's

suggestion that grandma might face arrest would Mark a major shift in policy under President Biden isce is mostly targeting those deemed National Security or Public Safety threats and people who just crossed the border illegally the majority of the 4 million deportations carried out by the Biden Administration have occurred at the southern border where an unprecedented influx of migrants created scenes of chaos a humanitarian crisis and one of Vice President Harris's biggest political vulnerabilities homman says Mass deportation is the solution how many people would be deported that's that's you can't answer that question why not how

many officers do I have is there a written plan on this now that I know of if there's no memo if there's no plan is this fully baked we've done it before but not a deportation at this scale Ice is very good at these operations this is what they do to see what they do we went to Silver Spring Maryland a suburb of Washington DC where earlier this month ice agents gathered in a parking lot Before Dawn it's what ice does every day and has been doing for many years all right good morning everyone their

task this morning locate and arrest undocumented immigrants with criminal histories including assault robbery drug and gun convictions this morning our Target is going to be identified by Ice as a threat to Public Safety hey let's roll Matt Elliston director of is's Baltimore Field office told us the goal was to catch the first Target by surprise you've been watching him he yeah you know his routine yeah we know his routine we've been watching him for a couple days wait till he gets about in front of my vehicle so sure enough a white van soon appeared to

pick him up but they didn't get very far hey how you doing what you got in your hand what did you put down the man they arrested was a 24-year-old Guatemalan with an assault conviction who had been ordered deported by a judge 5 years ago the ice agents discovered that the driver of the van was also in the country country illegally they told us he'd been deported once before he has no criminal record and he was picking up his employees to go to work it doesn't make sense to waste a detention bed on someone like

that when we have other felons to go out and get today a lot of folks might hear you and say like hold on you've got an undocumented immigrant who comes face to face with ice who's responsible for deporting folks from this country and you let him go we utilize immigration law to enhance Public Safety it's not to just aimlessly arrest anyone we come across right we do targeted enforcement in ice it took a team of more than a dozen officers 7 hours to arrest six people and that doesn't include the many hours spent searching for

them oh my God so how would it even be possible then for ice to arrest a million people in this country if that mass deportation plan were to take effect I could say here in Maryland we would never be able to resource or find that find that amount of detention which would be our biggest challenge right and just the amount of money that that would cost in order to detain everybody uh you know it would be you know at the Department of Defense level of financing it's insane to think about it at this sort of

scale Jason Hower ice Chief of Staff during the first two years of the Biden Administration y go and take it off for me says it costs $150 a night to detain people like those we saw arrested the average stay as they weight deportation is 46 days one deportation flight can cost a quar of a million dollar and that assumes the Home Country will accept them many like Cuba and Venezuela rarely do ice currently has some 6,000 law enforcement agents how much Manpower would it take to arrest and Deport a million people you're talking 100,000 uh

official officers uh police officers Detention officers support staff management staff Trump adviser Steven Miller has said staff could come from other government agencies like the DEA the idea that you're going to take the FBI or the Marshal Service or the Bureau of Prisons or the Secret Service or FEMA off of their mission sets that protect and protect our communities will not make us safer you by the um office the immigration okay immigration enforcement requires specialized training and language skills that most military and Law Enforcement Officers don't have there's this discussion out there that makes it

sound like it's just an easy swap it is not an easy swap so what I could tell you in from the immigration and nationality act immigration law is second to the US tax code and complexity we have seen one estimate that says it would cost $88 billion to deport a million people a year I don't know if that's accurate or not is that what America ameran taxpayers should expect what price do you put on National Security is that worth it is there a way to carry out Mass deportation without separating families of course is families

can be deported together Monica kamacho Perez and her family worry about that they have lived and worked in the country since coming illegally from Mexico more than 20 years ago what scares you the most I think of of my nieces and my nephews that that they're going to get separated from their parents they made a life in Baltimore where Monica who's 30 teaches English as a second language we are a normal family like anybody else right we go to church we work every day we pay taxes she's among the more than 500,000 undocumented immigrants brought

to the country as children who are protected from from deportation under the deferred action for childhood arrivals program known as DACA I'm the only one right now that's like protected while my parents are not my brothers are not my brothers have uh children that are born here so if they were to get deported what would happen to their kids although I have my life here I think that I would take the decision to go back with my parents to take care of them you would yes you own a home here this is the city you

grew up in but they're also part of my American dream and I can't imagine living here without them like Monica's nieces and nephews more than 4 million us-born children live with an undocumented parent why should a child who is an American citizen have to pack up and move to a country that they don't know CU their parent abely entered the country illegally had a child knowing he was in the country illegally so he created that crisis while Homan ran ice in what became one of the most controversial policies of the Trump administration at least 5,000

migrant children were forcibly separated from their parents who were prosecuted for crossing the border illegally you've been called the father of Trump's family separation policy how's that sit with you it's not true uh I didn't write the memorandum to separate families I signed a memo why did I sign a memo I was hoping to save lives while you and I are talking right now a child's going to die in the border so we thought maybe if we prosecute people they'll stop coming maybe and if Trump wins a second term I don't know of any formal

policy but they're talking about family separation should it be on the table it needs to be considered absolutely do you think a mass deportation plan would deter other people from coming to this country illegally no I don't think so regardless people are still going to try to come for a better life when Russia invaded Ukraine it sparked International outrage it also triggered a wave of international sanctions designed to Russia's economy so badly it couldn't fight the war and yet two and a half years later the fighting continues and the international monetary fund predicts this year

Russia's economy will grow over 3% more than the US and Europe the architect behind the United States sanction strategy is delip Singh the deputy National Security adviser for international economics at the White House we first interviewed him in the weeks after the 2022 Invasion when he told us he expected a barrage of sanctions to bring Russia's economy to its knees earlier this month we went to Washington to ask to LEAP sing about those early predictions of a nose dive and he told us something we don't hear very often on 60 Minutes so let's be let's

be honest this is not the nose dive that I predicted two years ago but uh I don't think anybody should mistake Russia's Rebound with resilience on the surface Russia's economy may appear to be a fortress but underneath the foundations are fragile hours after the invasion the US began striking that Foundation at the White House delip Singh announced the administration's strategy today we impose an unprecedented package of financial sanctions and Export restrictions within 72 hours the US and its allies blocked Russia's Central Bank from accessing 300 billion it stashed around the world then froze the foreign

bank accounts of dozens of Russian billionaires later seizing their trophies for good measure since then 45 countries have directed over 5,000 sanctions at Russian targets everything from diamonds and semiconductors to Vladimir Putin himself and yet the war is still raging the Russian economy is growing it looks like sanctions have been a failure no not at all so he's turbocharged government spending to fuel the war machine he's Frozen infrastructure and education spending and um yes that's lifted GDP growth but there's a cost Skyhigh inflation almost 9% nose bleed interest rates almost 19% uh both are choking

off growth but the sanctions have not been able to curb the flow of cash from the kremlin's most valuable asset oil Russia is the third largest producer in the world and this year its oil and gas Revenue news are expected to increase 2.6% to nearly $240 billion we wondered how despite all those sanctions the Kremlin is still making so much money from its oil we found the answer in an unexpected Place 20 M off the coast of Greece we just departed Athens we went there with Samir madani madani runs a company from Stockholm that tracks

oil tankers for dozens of international clients such as insurance companies or shippers who want to know exactly where oil is moving in case of a spill or accident but he took us to see this oil tanker called the Sprite it's part of Russia's dark Fleet One of an estimated 200 ships that move a million barrels of Russian oil around Western sanctions every day it's h quite rare to see this vessel uh actually presenting its name and Imo number and everything madani and his team monitor satellite images signals from ships and photographs from the ground to

track tankers he told us one day in January 2023 he noticed something suspicious on his dashboard a tanker sending signals from a port in Japan a country that doesn't export crude oil that didn't make sense so I was able to review that with satellite imagery and saw that there was no vessel at the port instead uh it was a spoof we in fact we saw the vessel in cosino in Russia so they're able to lie about their location yes in real time and so that allows them to move wherever they want to move undetected and

that happened how quickly after the sanctions took place immediately immediately when you're sitting at your dashboard and you're watching all this what makes you know that's part of the dark Fleet yeah the ownership will change the vessel uh age is beyond 15 years that's a red flag and so these vessels were supposed to be scrapped and then somebody makes a bid in the last minute with a with a million dollars and and gets to extend the life uh of of this tanker the Sprite is one of those tankers 21 years old it was last purchased

in February and is registered to a shell company in the Caribbean so what was it doing floating off the coast of Greece Sprite here is acting as a as a Dropbox for Russian oil if you can see on her starboard you side on the right side there you have the um four buoys and that means uh they Place those there for uh contact with other vessels other dark Fleet vessels that will transfer oil onto or off of the Sprite madani spotted one of them the zambra a mile away these are images madani's team provided of

zambra moving oil from Russian ports on the Black Sea through the bosphorous straight in turkey and then transferring it onto the Sprite just off the coast of Greece we were there with you were watching you know transfer transfer transfer what's going on there the transfers are an additional layer of obfuscation when it comes to uh transferring oil so when you have a floating Dropbox act like that you know where it's able to take in any kind of oil and then output any other kind of oil it it it confuses things the point of this tanker

shell game is to get around Western sanctions specifically a price cap that was supposed to limit moscow's oil profits in 2022 the G7 which includes the US Canada Japan and four European countries banned the import of Russian oil but they didn't want to risk a global Price bike so they allowed Russian oil to continue to flow internationally but imposed a $60 a barrel price cap on the purchase of Russian crude oil Russia's workarounds are paying off almost all of its crude oil is selling above the price cap in the last two years Russia's dark fleet

has moved an estimated 45 billion dollar worth of crude oil and where is all that oil going yeah most of the oil that departs Russia by SE uh nowadays is going to China and India 60 Minutes analyzed four years of data from India's Ministry of Commerce we found the value of India's Imports of Russian crude oil increased by more than 2,000% since the invasion of Ukraine much of that crude goes to an Indian Port called sea where it's refined into other oil products such as gasoline but those products don't necessarily stay in India samadani helped

us track a tanker of refined products from India's Port around the tip of Africa across the Atlantic Ocean and ultimately here to New York we saw the ship coming from India into the New York Harbor how often is that happening it happens around uh twice a month and they bring in around half a million barrels of refined product fuel so is the Russian crude oil untraceable after it becomes refined it's untraceable yeah the US Treasury has sanctioned 38 Russian dark Fleek tankers but samadani says he's identified 170 others that are still active moving Russian oil

not doing it in the middle of the night they're doing it in broad daylight how do you stop that first identify them second let them know uh that uh they are subject to our sanctions and then three deliver those sanctions any player in Russia's Shadow Fleet Network would be subject to our sanctions why not do it right now what we're trying to balance right now is uh is to continue to move the global oil Market into balance to continue to have uh uh a downward movement in the level of inflation across the world and to

sustain Unity we can't sanction Russia's Shadow Fleet by ourselves so there's a diplomatic component to this too and this is about stamina more so than it is about shock and awe there's another Market the US is trying to keep in Balance American nuclear energy the us is still paying Russia $1 billion a year for enriched uranium to help fuel 94 nuclear reactors to provide about a fifth of America's energy needs in May Congress took notice and banned the import of Russian enriched uranium but the Bayon won't go into full effect for 4 years does the

US have the capacity right now that it needs for enriched uranium no so on unfortunately in about 25% of it to 30% has been imported from Russia we don't have it right we we are dependent that's because the United States stopped making enriched uranium a decade ago Amir vexler runs centrus energy last year centrus began enriching uranium inside this pikon Ohio facility the only American company with that capability vexler showed us how it's done those 40ft tall centrifuges spin uranium gas until it's enriched and can be used as nuclear fuel but these 16 centrifuges can

only make a fraction of the enriched uranium the US needs see those squares on the ground those are placeholders for 11,000 more centrifuges centrus wants to build and how long in the best case scenario would it take to get those up and running it will take about six to seven years to get to full capacity and to not be relying on Russia that is correct in Russia businesses quickly pivoted when Western companies left the country at the start of the war Russian versions replaced them Starbucks with stars coffee Zara with MOG Coca-Cola dri Cola even

authentic Western Products such as the latest iPhones are still getting into the hands of Russians when we first started hearing about sanctions against Russia we anticipated seeing you know bread lines in Moscow has that happened in a word no the most Goods that Russians would have access before the war are available now Richard Connelly is an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London and a specialist on the Russian economy sanctions prohibit the sale of Western cars to Russia Mercedes or Chryslers but a lot of them are still making their way to Russia

via third parties like Georgia in the South Caucasus or or Kazakhstan or China um now of course if you're going to have to send an American or German car on this roundabout route to reach Russia the price of that car when it's sold is much higher than it was before the war but there a lot of Russians with a lot of money in their pocket who are prepared to pay that higher price there's an incentive for lots of Russian small businesses to acquire Goods on foreign markets from sanctioning countries bring them back to Russia and

sell them at a very healthy markup so evading sanctions has become good business in it's become a business uh sector of its own in Russia yes what kind of businesses are we talking about some people are selling Goods that were previously sanctioned they're producing them at home the number of small and medium-sized businesses registered in Russia is at an all-time high before the war Russia had a big problem it wasn't investing enough but since the War Began the single biggest source of investment is in trade and Logistics it almost sounds like from an economic perspective

that the war is the best thing that's happened to Russia it's certainly changed the economic trajectory this is the fastest it's grown for a consecutive period in in over a decade and a half whether they can sustain that over time is of course um the big question it's possible that there may confound expectations in the future as well the spot where the Columbia River spills into the Pacific Ocean at the border between Oregon and Washington state is where Lewis and Clark ended their journey of Discovery in 1805 with Clark writing in his journal ocean in

view oh joy but it's not all joy in fact it's one of the most dangerous inlets in America a highpressure torrent of water pours out of the huge River's mouth and runs right into waves that have been moving across the Pacific for thousands of miles it's precisely because of this powerful aquatic Collision that Elite members of the United States Coast Guard come to this place once each year determined to earn the coveted certification as surfman on the B comes a big one touch your head com fire on a wet February afternoon we are on board

a 47t US Coast Guard motor Lifeboat with Chief Eric Kelly at the helm driving through breaking surf barely a 100 yards off the beach I have another swall right up here and another right behind there exactly at the time Kelly was Chief instructor at the Coast Guard's National motor Lifeboat school this was the first day of class and the three students on his boat were studying his every turn of the wheel and calling out approaching swells got a SD star six more trainees were on two other boats with other instructors Kelly says everyone is here

because this place at the mouth of the Columbia River consistently has some of the worst weather and highest seas in America we exposed them to a tremendous amount of surf conditions over four weeks more so than they' get over years at their own unit morning shates how are we first thing that morning Tim crochet commanding officer of the Lifeboat school had welcom this year's class of nine students and I promise you the instructors behind me are going to give you world class instruction and they're going to help you become a better motor life booat operator

we're going to get you closer and closer to certifying as a surfman certifying a surfman that's the goal of each of these students and the dream of thousands of other members of the Coast Guard being a surfman is sometimes compared to being a Navy SEAL or in the Army Special Forces but in truth this is a more exclusive Club isn't it currently we have about 130 active duty surfmen right now how many members of the Coast Guard um I think the Coast Guard's right around 40,000 people 40,000 people in 100 surfmen so that is a

pretty exclusive Club it is it's a there's a small number of us certifying as a surfman means the Coast Guard trusts you to drive a Lifeboat on the most challenging rescue missions in 20ft breaking waves and 50 knot winds at the entrance to the school is a display of every surfman Medallion called a check ever earned so how far back does this go it goes back to 1872 that's when the US life saving service began saving Mariners in distress it became the Coast Guard in 1915 and now operates 20 surf stations where rescues may have

to be made in breaking waves on average the Coast Guard makes more than 5,000 rescues a year where is yours mine is right back here it's check number 407 Chief instructor Eric Kelly whose's boat we were on where's his surfman number I understand you have a tattoo I do I do I have my surfing number I'm surfing 545 this is something that is very very important to me at the opening session of the motor life boat School Chief Kelly read the Coast Guard's surfman's Creed aloud I will never unnecessarily jeopardize myself my boat or my

crew but we'll do so freely to rescue those in Peril and he told the students they'd each need to have the Creed memorized before the 4-we course was over it takes a lot to get there and it takes a person a special type person willing to put themselves into those situations where you're looking up at a 20 foot breaking sea and like I want to do this I want to keep training in this this year's class was all male but there are nearly a dozen female surfmen most candidates come here first for a basic course

then heavy weather and finally this surf class Derek Samuelson Trenton Campbell and Joshua Slaughter are the three trainees on on Eric Kelly's boat most of us are going to be pushing pretty close to four years when we get certified that's almost a college degree worth of training in driving these boats it's something not a lot of people get to do it's not that they get to do it but that they achieve it that they achieve it yes we come here our only job is to learn and drive and surf so it's it's a great opportunity

this is a representation of the mouth of the Columbia Jeff Smith is the curator of the Columbia River Maritime Museum which has a giant map illustrating how the mouth of the Columbia River has earned the title graveyard of the Pacific all these little boats that you see are representative of the shipwrecks that have occurred all of these yeah this is we have 50 of them numbered but there's many many more thousands more over several Centuries with at least 700 lives lost the skeletons of wrecked ships still litter some area be bees so despite how treacherous

this Waterway is it's a vital economic Waterway as well it certainly is of all the grain exported from the United States just over 40% goes out the Columbia River every commercial ship coming into the river must have a local pilot come on board to guide it this video shows how perilous it can be just to get that pilot onto one of those ships Imagine The Dangers faced by Coast Guardsmen trying to rescue a ship or sailboat or fishing boat that's in trouble I'm always a little bit I don't know if Star Struck is the word

or a struck when I'm in the presence of the men and women of our Coast Guard cuz the the job they do is just amazing it's incredible an incredible group of people it's such a a cool mission that we get to do like we got to go drive these awesome boats out and have the opportunity to save people in their Darkest Day as he drove into ever stormier Seas on that first day of school it was clear Eric Kelly would rather be at the helm of his Lifeboat than just about anywhere else so you love

this huh I absolutely love this but Kelly was also deadly serious about teaching his students how to read every swell watch that run from that running running running Center of that Helm I'm going they got that beat got window right here nice little near side shoulder easing off let that come to me I'm going to get right on the back pull follow that Peak point this is going to get super Dynamic down here these are shooting in every direction when he couldn't outrun a wave Kelly executed what may be the most important maneuver a Lifeboat

driver must Master nowhere to go squaring up squaring up is pointing the bow of the boat directly into and through a breaking wave sometimes a really big breaking [Music] wave we hit a couple of those yesterday where we got the spray went up and you know the the bow was up and you saw a blue sky and then all of a sudden you you're down in a in a hole um what's the worst thing you could do in a situation like that the worst thing you could do is not be square to that breaking wav

you could have a knockdown which is when the boat goes underneath water but rewrites in the same direction or even worse a 360° rollover have you ever experienced that yourself I haven't experienced a full 360° rollover I have experienced a knockdown or two and that's what they designed this boat for that design is seen in this demonstration video but out in the surf Eric Kelly was showing his students how to avoid ever having to test it on a real mission how long before you let the students take control of the boat so starting tomorrow we'll

do another demonstration of wherever we're going to train and then students are on it for the remainder of the the course hold on who every day for the next four weeks the students took the helm with Eric Kelly signaling approval when they did something right and correcting them when they didn't we probably should have squared up to that one but on the B guys [Music] students drove in every kind of condition and ran simulated missions like pulling someone in this case a dummy reaching out of the water nice reach Josh get him on board all

right stand by to clear the recess sometimes a real Rescue Mission can supplant the simulations as when the boats were making one last training run on graduation day 2023 mayday mayday sure enough we heard a Mayday uh for distress go out over channel6 the radio frequency I think I might be taking on water hurry up by the time the three training boats spotted a white boat called the Sandpiper with one man on board conditions had gone from mild to mad and at this point we're facing 25 30t 35t breaking Seas uh 50 knots of winds

it's raining hailing and very very Dynamic far too Dynamic to have any chance of Towing The Vessel to safety it was also graduation day for the Coast Guard's Advanced rescue helicopter school and they dropped a rescue swimmer named John Walton into the water you can see him paddling furiously it was his first rescue and they deployed him and he was able to retrieve that individual off the Sandpiper right as that 30 plus foot break rolled that boat multiple times it's hard to imagine how either the rescued or The Rescuer survived that but they both did

but really seeing how the Coast Guard work together and have one of the the coolest rescues I've had my entire career on graduation graduation day for these future uh surfmen graduation day for this year's class was far more Placid all nine students completed the course and all nine had memorized the surfman's Creed I will to the best of my ability pursue each Mission with the commitment compassion and courage inherent in title surfman they didn't all certify as surfman that day most had to wait to return to their home units for their commanding officers to give

them the nod but two of the nine got a surprise uh bm2 Casey BM to Campbell front and center please Dorian Casey and Trenton Campbell had their commanding officers in attendance ready to bestow the honor then and there it seemed every certified surfman on the west coast had come and they handed the coveted medallions those checks to one another Ser 494 say Riv 485 station moral Bay 484 station B 450 station River 407 station cetco River and then to the two newest surfman Trenton Campbell accepted hugs from his trainers and fellow classmates and then headed

back to his base stationed quillayute River on the coast of Washington ready to do what he joined the Coast Guard to do the reason why we all want to be here is that dream to Save a Life um I think there's no better feeling than that we're training for the opportunity to save a human life it's all the motivation you need how to report from the graveyard of the Pacific all the things I do for my job at 60 Minutes overtime.com the last minute of 60 Minutes is sponsored by United Healthcare reliable coverage for your

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