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 RIP Mr. Webber (USCG most fabled hero)
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Melbourne, Fl. January 26, 2009 -- Bernard C. Webber, who steered his small boat into the impassable waves of Chatham Bar on an impossible mission to rescue the crew of a stricken tanker off Cape Code, died Saturday at age 80 in Melbourne, Florida. Rescue of the Pendleton crew Tom
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
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Re: RIP Mr. Webber (USCG most fabled hero)
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Senior Chief Webber retired shortly before I joined the CG, but people would still talk about the rescue. What that crew managed to do in those conditions was amazing. 
Morituri Nolumus Mori
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Re: RIP Mr. Webber (USCG most fabled hero)
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Those guys were bad A$$, especially Senior Chief Webber. The new boats the Coastie's have are built stronger/better (I got to ride in one in the protected waters of LIS) but you wouldn't find me in that off the Columbia River or Chatham when a storm is blowing through.
RIP Senior Chief
Hold my beer......
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