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PHOTO RELEASE: Coast Guard, Coast Guard Auxiliary hold remembrance ceremony for fallen shipmates

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A Coast Guard Sector Miami color guard presents the colors during a Coast Guard Air Station Miami remembrance ceremony in Miami, Florida, on Jan. 25, 2017. Navy Lt. Larry J. Brant, chaplain, gives the key note speech at a Coast Guard Air Station Miami remembrance ceremony in Miami, Florida, on Jan. 25, 2017. A Coast Guardsman presents flowers to a family member of a fallen air crewman at a Coast Guard Air Station Miami remembrance ceremony in Miami, Florida, on Jan. 25, 2017.
A Coast Guardsman plays taps at a Coast Guard Air Station Miami remembrance ceremony in Miami, Florida, on Jan. 25, 2017. A wreath and flowers lay in front of a memorial after a Coast Guard Air Station Miami remembrance ceremony in Miami, Florida, on Jan. 25, 2017.

MIAMI — Coast Guard Air Station Miami hosted a memorial remembrance ceremony Wednesday at Miami Opa-Locka Executive Airport.

The annual ceremony honored those air crew members who lost their lives in the line of duty in the Miami area.

On Jan. 17, 1979, a Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard was involved in a midair collision during their landing descent with a civilian helicopter in a takeoff climb.  Both aircraft were cleared by the tower along parallel flight paths, but were not advised of each other.  Coast Guard Lt. R.G. Ausness, Lt. R.C. Shearer Jr., Petty Officer 1st Class R.E. McClain and Petty Officer 3rd Class J.B. Case died in the collision.

On Feb. 1, 2001, Coast Guard Auxiliarists Casey Purvis and Robert Fuller were aboard a Piper PA-32 performing night intercept training with an Air Station Miami HU-25 Falcon jet crew.  During the flight, the auxiliarists entered the clouds and subsequently crashed.

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