“American hero” on his very first mission...Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskan, 26, had barely completed training when he was thrust into one of the worst Texas flash floods in recent memory. A New Jersey native and former accountant, Ruskan answered the call to serve—and ended up helping save 165 lives on day one. . Deployed to Camp Mystic, a Christian girls’ summer camp devastated by flash floods along the Guadalupe River, Ruskan found himself face-to-face with chaos: snapped trees, twisted metal, and campers still in pajamas—shoeless, cold, and terrified. . With roads washed out and boat access impossible, helicopters were the only hope. Ruskan stayed on the ground, organizing airlifts, calming panicked survivors, and triaging those needing the fastest evacuation. Blackhawks and MH-65s took to the skies as Ruskan directed flight crews to stranded clusters, all while comforting sobbing children and heartbroken adults searching for the missing. . “Any one of us would’ve done it,”...