chopper

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The Coast Guard swimmer who jumped time and again from a chopper into the raging waters of the July 2025 Texas flood, saving 165 lives, was also honored.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

"Five more minutes, and I would have left you," the pilot tells the reporters as they clamber back in, the chopper stuttering up and banking over the town's remains.

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

The chopper lifted off and tilted back north toward a nearby Border Patrol post.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2025

By the time the chopper took off, though, that information was no longer correct.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2025

We climb inside; the chopper shoulders into the sky and then hovers for a moment before banking steeply to the southeast.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer