(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Petty Officer Second Class James D. McCann, II, United States Navy, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism at the risk of life not involving conflict with an armed enemy on 12 February 1983 while participating in a rescue mission off the coast of Virginia. A Coast Guard helicopter already on the scene had no rescue swimmer so Petty Officer McCann, wearing a wet suit, was lowered into the 37-degree water with 20 foot swells to save the life of a crewman from the collier Marine Electric, who would otherwise have perished.