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A U.S. Coast Guard aviation survival technician assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., conducts a man overboard exercise from a new 45-foot response boat-medium off the coast of Virginia, April 16, 2008. Coast Guard Station Little Creek out of Virginia Beach, Va., is the first Coast Guard unit in the world to receive the new RB-M.

MAN OVERBOARD

A U.S. Coast Guard aviation survival technician assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., conducts a man overboard exercise from a new 45-foot response boat-medium off the coast of Virginia, April 16, 2008. Coast Guard Station Little Creek out of Virginia Beach, Va., is the first Coast Guard unit in the world to receive the new RB-M.

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