title: The Daring Coast Guard Rescue of the Pendleton Crew
author: Theresa Mitchell Barbo
description: Journalist, author and historian Theresa M. Barbo is the author of six books of historical non-fiction published by The History Press. Barbo is a noted public speaker throughout New England and a former award-winning broadcast journalist and news magazine history editor. She is also a former executive in the non-profit sector. Captain W. Russell Webster retired in 2003 after 26 years of Coast Guard service. He served as Group Woods Hole rescue commander from 1998 to 2001. He also served as the Coast Guard's regional operations officer for the September 11 terrorist attack responses. In 2008, he became FEMA's first New England Federal Preparedness Coordinator. Julia Marshall is an artist and illustrator living in New Orleans. She holds a BFA in Illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design. Learn more about Julia at JMarStudio.com.
zlib_text: CAVE RESCUE COURTSHIP
  A US COAST GUARD ROMANTIC SUSPENSE STORY
  M. L. BUCHMAN
  
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  ABOUT THIS BOOK
  Petty Officer Vera Chu lives her dream of serving aboard a US Coast
  Guard cutter. Newly assigned to patrols of the treacherous Columbia River
  Bar only affirms her resolve.
  Lieutenant Hammond Markson flies his Dolphin rescue helicopter as
  if it’s a part of himself.
  Only when a desperate rescue on the storm-tossed Oregon Coast cliffs
  throws them together do they find out how truly exciting life can be.
  
  1
  “YOU ARE OFFICIALLY THE CHIEF LOON ON THIS BOAT,” PETTY OFFICER
  Vera Chu slid out of her upper bunk and did her best to repress a shiver. As
  fast as possible she stripped out of her sleeping sweats and pulled on “The
  Blue”—technically the ODU, Operational Dress Uniform, which sounded
  far too fancy for the standard Coast Guard working