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![EricLDaugh Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::763094579491008512.png) Eric Daugherty [@EricLDaugh](/creator/twitter/EricLDaugh) on x 480.8K followers
Created: 2025-07-07 00:49:12 UTC

🚨 BREAKING: Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskan, who rescued XXX PEOPLE from the Texas floods, makes his first public comments after his story went viral.

"Honestly, I’m mostly just a dude. I’m just doing a job. This is what I signed up for, and I think that any single Coast Guard rescue swimmer or any single Coast Guard pilot, flight mechanic, whoever it may be, would have done the exact same thing in our situation."

"That’s what we were asked to do and we’re gonna do it. Any one of us, if anyone else was on duty that day, they would have done the same thing as us. We just happened to be the crew that got the case."

Get this man a Medal of Freedom!

Per NYP / @JennieSTaer

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XXXXXXX engagements

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