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26-year-old AST3 Scott Ruskan, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, saved 165 lives, including 51 children from Camp Mystic, during deadly flash flooding over the weekend in Kerr County, TX. July 2025
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This is amazing
Seriously. Probably not for maritime rescue, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that was a USCG record for flash-flood rescues.. but maybe not.. it’s a pretty stellar institution..
Give this guy some kind of high level distinguished service medal or SOMETHING.
Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal or even Coast Guard Cross seems in order.
Absolute hero. The courage, strength, and heart it takes to do something like that is beyond words. Thank you for your service, AST3 Scott Ruskan
Can we get him a water resistant "Bad Motherfucker" wallet please?
He's earned it
We had the great fortune to speak with Scott during a tour of the Coast Guard Air Station a couple of weeks ago and his in life personality is exactly what you see in the interviews. He is a really great guy that has a true passion for his work... a great influence to the kiddos on the tour! Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi is full of top notch heroes!
Well done. 👏👏👏👏
26 everywhere else but that mustache is now 45. It's seen things.
Thank you Rusk.
The mustache saved 3 children on its own.
They clinged to it, as we are now.
It is now firmly entrenched in the annals of history as a great and wonderful entity.
What an amazing young man!! Thank you.
Thanks for helping our neighbors!!!!! HERO!!!!
Thankfully there are people like him willing to do that job!❤️
And capable of doing so. The physical endurance required!
I used to think of the Coast Guard was the least of the branches.
But watching 10+ years of Deadliest Catch blew my mind about how daring and able those Coast Guard teams are.
I’ll never forget how the Coast Guard defied all orders and went in to rescue people in New Orleans after Katrina. Just a “fuck it, we are going in to save lives and there’s not a damn thing anyone can do about it.” Badass….
Hero
Even looks like one.
Thank you!! 🙏
It’s good to see some good in the world. Thank you for your service!
You rock!!
Thank you for your service!
God Bless this Man
Every time I hear people complain about the military, I think of these young people, who are a credit to their country.
A true hero
Guys a machine. May God keep him safe.
🫡
He should never have to pay for a beer at any bar for the rest of his life.
A real life hero!
Definition of a hero, IMO.
HERO!
Thank You, Sir!
Hero.
Thank you, Sir!
A true American hero….hat tip to him….
He got that dawg in him 💪🏽
Now that’s true hero/patriot! Good bless this man.
woah!
does that mean all the people in the medical field that save lifes are true patriots? so cool
Yes, yes it does.
Someone is gonna have to jump in and save this guy from drowning in… well… you know.
Did he literally swim and collect each person??? 🤯
He should get "tally marks" tattooed for each life he saved. He'd have a full sleeve.
Kudos to Scott and his pilots.
What’s crazy is that this was his first mission as a rescue swimmer. He just finished his training six months ago, and went on to do this amazing work. God bless him.
His mustache though 🤣 Reminds me of yearbook pictures you see of high school seniors in the 70’s, you know they’re around 18 years old but they look like they’re middle aged used car salesmen.
Amazing stuff. Look for the helpers.
Must be awesome to be good at ones job and handle it so well
A true hero !
Fantastic work by this PJ(Parajumper). Organizing the triage center for the injured almost single-handedly, getting the helo sites cleaned up to receive and organize the survivors to load onto them. This boy has a bucket of medals waiting for him at the Oval Office.
Camp Mystic was an active river bed and the primary flow was diverted. Guess what happens when the banks overflow and water returns to its previous flow?
That’s an interesting fact. Do you know why they did it in the first place?
No, not really. I read the nearly identical information from 2,3 different sources. Seems like a man made catastrophe waiting to happen.
He and 20 others on the helicopters
Bravo Zulu 👏
The Netflix movie is going to be awesome.
Swimmer saved 165 including all those kids? Coasities don't get enough respect.
Hate to be that guy, but…. He’s a rescue swimmer. That’s his job. He did his job well. One that he’s trained extensively for and paid for. This is like saying, “Joe from accounting is amazing. He counted well during the hardest time of year, tax season!”
I'd rather we save people without needing these Herculean efforts through prevention, which is done by not giving power to people who shouldn't have it
The EMT mustache has to go!
When one’s job may require a mask to seal tightly along the jawline, a mustache is the only acceptable form of facial hair to maintain the seal. Let’s let our first responder have what little options remain for face whiskers without judgement.
Tbf my mask might not seal but ima look damn good with them Anthrax twitches
I judge them every time and it will never stop.
You judge medical first responders trimming their facial hair so they can use PPE safely on a post about a first responder saving 100+ people? I’m here if you need to vent to someone so your comments aren’t public.
I would refuse service if I saw that stache. Yes, he did a good job.
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