Mike Corey (Host)

It's nearly 4 a.m.

and he's grateful to finally be back on solid ground.

They didn't have enough fuel to get all the way back to Sitka, so instead they've landed on a small airstrip in Yakutat, a coastal village closer to Fairweather Ground.

Lefevre is proud of how his crew performed, but as they disembark, he can see how dejected they look.

He walks over to them.

Listen, I know you're all still thinking about the guy following, but you can't focus on that, okay?

Because of you, three men are going home to their families.

Think about the ones we saved, not the ones we lost.

The men all nod, still not quite looking like they believe him.

Lefevre hopes they'll come around.

In the Coast Guard, no one lasts long if they get hung up on their failures.

Right as he's thinking this, Lefevre happens to look over and see Bob Doyle.

When Lefevre heard over comms that Doyle was among those rescued, he wasn't sure if he really believed it.

But it's the former chief warrant officer, all right.

Doyle now has a thick reddish-gray beard, but otherwise he looks exactly the same as when he stepped into Lefevre's office over a year ago, talking about his divorce and pleading to keep his job.

Lefevre watches as Doyle helps a medic lift another man out of the helicopter.

They place the man on a stretcher, then carry him to the back of a waiting ambulance.

When Lefevre first met Doyle, he felt nothing but pity and contempt for him.

The man was a drunk, and Lefevre has no patience for drunks, especially ones who put on a uniform and claim to serve their country.

But watching Doyle now, helping his buddy after spending more than six hours in a freezing storm-tossed ocean, Lefevre feels a grudging sense of admiration.