Oahu-based U.S. Coast Guard pilot receives prestigious honor

HONOLULU — U.S. Coast Guard Lt. David Shook, an Air Station Barbers Point pilot, poses with his spouse and Rear Adm. Manson K. Brown, the commander of the 14th Coast Guard District, after receiving the Air Medal, March 22, 2010.

Shook was awarded the high honor for his performance of duty during a rescue mission off the French Frigate Shoals, an atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Oct. 20, 2009.

The Air Medal is awarded to any person who, while serving in any capacity with the Armed Forces of the United States, distinguishes him or herself by heroic or meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Stanley Guzman

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