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The Michael Berry Show.

Every branch of our armed forces protects American lives, but the Coast Guard is the only service explicitly dedicated to saving them.

You're saving lives. You never leave an American behind, and you never would.

In the past year, our Coast Guard heroes have saved over

5,200 lives at least and helped carry out and carry over 19,000 people to safety. Amazing. One of the

special cadets in this class has already saved his first life during his first class summer, providing

life-saving care to the person in distress off the coast of Alaska. A job well done. That's Mason.

White. Mason. Thank you. Stand up, please. Thank you. Thank you, Mason. Great job. That was early on, right? And that was great job. Thank you very much. When you leave here today, every cadet on the field will be stepping into a critical role in the defense of our country to protect our maritime infrastructure.

Twelve of you will be going to Coast Guard Cyber Command.

That's a big deal.

Twenty are heading to Coast Guard Flight School.

Twenty-three will join prevention and response,

and a whopping 181 cadets will become afloat officers in a fleet because as you like to say,

underway is the only way and that's a pretty cool statement.

And you know, I don't know if you know this, but I was telling your leaders before that we have 11 you know

we're way down on on icebreakers and we've ordered 11 we're working with

Finland they make ice breakers they make the best icebreakers we're going to learn

everything we can learn we're going to shortly make them ourselves but we're making

right now currently under construction.

We have 11 beautiful.

And I said, come on, when's the first one coming?

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