(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Commander Neal Amos, United States Coast Guard, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight on the night of 12 February 1997 while serving aboard Coast Guard HH-65A helicopter, CGNR 6589. The aircrew was engaged in the perilous rescue of two people from the sailing vessel GALE RUNNER that had become dismasted, disabled, and was taking on water in a gale south of the Quillayute River, off the Washington Coast. His courage, judgment, and devotion to duty are most heartily commended and are in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Coast Guard.