Mr. Murphy said there was also a subtler reason why the police liked the rescue duties.

The FAST concept is not universal, with many fire protection agencies training all personnel in rescue duties.

She also performed rescue duties when other screening and escort ships were damaged by enemy air action.

In this capacity she was used in offshore rescue duties.

She remained in this area on air-sea rescue duty until 14 September when she steamed into Tokyo Bay.

After this they can only be worse, and most of their soldiers will be on rescue duty.

From 9 September 1945 she was on four hour standby air-sea rescue duty at Reykjavík for the rest of the month.

One young mother rode her bicycle across the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday to bring food to police officers on rescue duty.

Submarine lifeguards spent a combined 3,272 days on rescue duty and rescued 502 men.

Mr. Parsons said the rescue duties would be added to the training of the next scheduled astronaut crew.