KODIAK, Alaska - Lt. Sean Krueger (second from the right) earned the Prince Philip Helicopter Rescue Award presented by the British Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators at their annual Trophies and Awards Banquet in London Oct. 29, 2009, for his actions as the aircraft commander of 'Rescue 193', an H3 Sea King helicopter, resulting in the rescue of a fisherman suffering from a life-threatening abdominal injury aboard a fishing vessel in the Atlantic in arduous weather.
Krueger was serving a two-year exchange tour with the 771 Naval Air Squadron part of the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy stationed out of Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose located in Southwest England and is currently serving as an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter pilot at Coast Guard Air Station Sitka. (Photo courtesy Lt. Sean Krueger)
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