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Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Jake Flores, maritime enforcement specialist at Maritime Safety & Security Team Houston and 2022 USO Service Member of the Year honoree, beams during a ceremony in Houston, Texas, Dec. 1, 2022. Flores’s command nominated him for the award for jumping into the Rio Grande to save a drowning baby during a patrol on June 2, 2022. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Corinne Zilnicki)

Dec. 26, 2022

‘Heroic, humble’ Coast Guardsman selected as 2022 USO Service Member of the Year 

Putting others' lives before his own, a true Coast Guardsman

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jarrett Guerra, Petty Officer 3rd Class Corey Connolly and Petty Officer 2nd Class Jake Flores, members of Coast Guard Maritime Safety & Security Team Houston, pose for a photo in the unit’s boat shed in Houston, Texas, July 14, 2022. While deployed to the Rio Grande on June 2, 2022, Guerra, Connolly and Flores saved two adult females and a 1-year-old boy from drowning in the river. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Corinne Zilnicki)

Aug. 8, 2022

Coast Guard team saves lives at the border 

Multiple rescues on the Rio Grande. 

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