Coast Guard and Navy Join Forces to Conduct Medical Evacuation

SAN DIEGO — Coast Guard helicopter crews from San Diego and San Francisco worked together with the USS Abraham Lincoln in the medical evacuation of a 42-year-old man from the motor vessel Marie Rikmers, 650 miles off the coast of San Diego on Sunday.

Coast Guard Medevacs Man to USS Abraham Lincoln

SAN DIEGO – A San Diego-based Coast Guard MH-60J Jayhawk helicopter crew performed a medical evacuation of a 42-year-old man from the motor vessel Marie Rikmers, 650 miles off the coast of San Diego, at 3:55 a.m. today.