A U.S. Coast Guard swimmer from New Jersey, who finished basic training last year, saved 165 lives on his first mission during the Independence Day flood in Kerr County. U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer Petty Officer Scott Ruskan “directly saved an astonishing 165 victims in the devastating flooding in central Texas,

Ruskan said he finished his Coast Guard training about six months earlier and has been with the Coast Guard for roughly a year, based in Corpus Christi. It's a far cry from Wall Street, where the Coast Guard said he left a career to "do something different with his life.