Mr. Bernard Lucas:

I would like to add to that point. We got an email from the Department recently asking us to express our interest in rejoining the Coast Guard. As a group of ten dismissed people we have banded together and said yes we are more than willing and able to join this new unit, and expressed our interest as a group of ten people. We feel that this group of ten people has done nothing wrong whatsoever. We have submitted this to the Coast Guard by the deadline which was last Friday, saying that as a group of ten people we are willing to come back and work and resume and the unit can be up and running immediately. I know these things take time but we will see where that goes.