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FILE - This July 2, 2011, file photo, provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows Richard Belisle, second from left, and Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins, second from right, with Jim Wells, left, and Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Cody Beauford as they help erect a communications antenna on Shemya Island, Alaska. A federal jury in Alaska on Friday, April 25, 2014, convicted a man of murder in the shooting deaths of two of his co-workers at a Coast Guard communications station on Kodiak Island. James Wells, 62, was charged in the 2012 shooting deaths of Coast Guardsmen Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins and retired Chief Petty Officer Richard Belisle. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, File)
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In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, Henri Worthalter, left, of Belgium; Lisa Rorke, of the United Kingdom; Dexter, a Jack Russell Terrier and Leonard Rorke, right, of the United Kingdom, pose for a picture, Friday, April 25, 2014. The Coast Guard coordinated the rescue of the group on Thursday, after they were rescued by good Samaritans after their 49-foot sailboat, the Blue Pearl, sank in the Atlantic Ocean. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)
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In this image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard the uninspected towing vessel Todd Michael is grounded on Lake Pontchartrain, Tuesday April 15, 2014. The Coast Guard rescued three crewmembers from the vessel after the Todd Michael took on water, separated from the barge and grounded onshore. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans)
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In this image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard the uninspected towing vessel Todd Michael is grounded on Lake Pontchartrain, Tuesday April 15, 2014. The Coast Guard rescued three crewmembers from the vessel after the Todd Michael took on water, separated from the barge and grounded onshore. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans)
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FILE - In this April 6, 2014, file photo, provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, sailors from the frigate USS Vandegrift assist in the rescue of the Kaufman family with a sick infant on the ship's small boat, as part of a joint U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and California Air National Guard rescue effort. None of the three federal agencies that helped rescue the ill 1-year-old, Lyra Kaufman, and her family from their broken down sailboat about 900 miles off Mexico's Pacific coast plan to seek reimbursement for the cost of the operation. Officials from the Navy, Coast Guard and California Air National Guard said Tuesday, April 8, 2014, they don't charge for search-and-rescue missions. "We don't want people in trouble at sea to hesitate to call for help for fear they'll be charged for assistance," said Lt. Anna Dixon of the 11th Coast Guard District, which oversaw the operation but did not send vessels or aircraft to the stranded sailboat. She said that helping at sea is a time-honored tradition and a requirement of international maritime convention. The Navy warship that picked up the family on Sunday is expected to reach San Diego on Wednesday. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, File)
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In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, sailors from Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate USS Vandegrift (FFG 49) assist in the rescue of a family with a sick infant via the ship's small boat as part of a joint U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and California Air National Guard rescue effort, Sunday, April 6, 2014. Eric and Charlotte Kaufman said their daughter Lyra's medical condition continued to improve after they boarded the San Diego-bound Vandegrift hundreds of miles off the Mexican coast so the girl could get to a medical facility. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)
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File - In this July 2, 2011, photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, Richard Belisle, second from left, and Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins, second from right, alomg with Jim Wells, left, and Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Cody Beauford help erect a communications antenna on Shemya Island, Alaska. An attorney for the man charged with killing two co-workers at a Kodiak Island Coast Guard facility says his client was elsewhere when the fatal gunshots were fired, in a Kodiak airport bathroom. A federal defender says James Wells suffered from intestinal issues after gallbladder surgery. Wells is charged with killing Richard Belisle and Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins in 2012. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, File)
