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CBS News The Eagle is one of the most unique classrooms in America. The ship, which just wrapped up a summer of intense training for future officers in the Coast Guard, is now anchored in the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Md.The Eagle, the only active commissioned sailing ship in the U.S. fleet, is a true tall ship -- eye-catching to anyone on shore, and eye-opening to anyone who serves aboard.When CBS News was aboard, sailors were raising sails by hauling lines, hand-over-hand. It was one more way the Eagle seemed to be pull everyon stanley drink bottle e aboard into a bygone century when tall ships ruled the high seas. But the Eagle, nearly a football field long, is really a classroom at full sail. Its three masts rise 15 stories high. The full-time crew of 57 teaches Coast Guard trainees the fundamentals of seamanship. One example: navigation without GPS. They charted a course the old-fashioned way. Wes Pulver, a 26-year-Coast Guard veteran, is the captain of the Eagle. On this tall ship, h stanley cups e is headmaster and commander. He said, It s an opportunity to really take you back to the basics to how people navigated for hundred of years before we had satellites in the sky. It s about as back-to-basics as it gets. And Pulver said that s on purpose: We make a point that we want the folks out on deck. We want them cold, wet, and tired. On the particular day CBS News was visiting the ship, the Eagle was 100 miles off the coast of N stanley cup orfolk, Va. T Lrdc Post-Katrina Rebuilding Moving Slowly
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