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Chief Warrant Officer Bob Doyle trudges down a long hallway at the Coast Guard Air Station in Sitka, Alaska.

He could really use a drink right now, but he needs to be sober for the meeting he's about to have.

It's June 1996, and Doyle has been summoned to the office of the base's new commanding officer, Ted Lefevre.

Captain Lefevre didn't give a reason for the meeting, but he didn't really have to.

Doyle knows it's because he hasn't been showing up for work.

Or showing up drunk.

Doyle has served in the Coast Guard for nearly 20 years, ever since he enlisted at 18.

It's everything to him.