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Camp Pendleton, California. (March 8, 2023): In this photo by Corporal Trent Holton, a transmissions system operator with the 9th Communications Battalion, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, uses a laser range finder-integrated capability system during ANGLICO Base Course (ABC). Marines undergo six weeks of intensive training, divided into three phases, to become combat ready “Anglicans.”
For today’s Marines, gone are the bulky backpack radios that weighed troops down in the jungles of Viet Nam. Today, Marine Transmissions System Operators maintain the military’s signature communications tool, the Very Small Aperture Terminal-Expeditionary vehicular or man pack radio set. The TSO fields and maintains these powerful, lightweight radio sets with their antennas and power sources. In combat, a TSO establishes contact with distant stations, processes and logs messages, and conducts frequency changes or cryptographic codes in real time. TSOs train to use highly specialized hardware/software programs to establish communications networks anywhere in the world.
The ABC Course expands these student’s grasp of transportation, communications, and call-for-fire missions. Students learn how to coordinate fire support, conduct field radio operations, and how to direct air support. They also receive training in airborne operations, insertion methods, fieldcraft, and other infantry skills.
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Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado. (March 21, 2023): In this photo by Senior Airman Danielle McBride, 2nd Lt. Keith M. Fetzner with the 460th Civil Engineer Squadron opens a valve on a fire hose and begins to spray water during a firefighter drill at Buckley Space Force Base. The drill gives realistic fire ground training under simulated stressful conditions to help soldiers understand the mental and physical exhaustion that comes with fighting fires and saving lives.
In wartime, the 460TH Civil Engineering Squadron does rapid repairs of airfields and other critical facilities where fire control is essential. The Air Force operates with unusual materials and in unique environments all over the world. Fire Protection Specialists must be prepared for anything, from brush fires to burning rocket fuel to hazardous material fires. These Air Force firefighters even back up local civilian fire departments in an emergency.
To become an Air Force firefighter, candidates must have a high school diploma plus 15 college credits, meet National Fire Protection Association physical standards, complete 7.5 weeks of Basic Military Training, and be between the ages of 17 and 39.In peacetime, the 460th’s job is to ensure the base is operating normally by maintaining infrastructure and conducting inspections. Base upkeep is a big responsibility for this squadron and requires dedication and teamwork making continuous repairs and upgrades on base.
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Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. (March 10, 2023): In this photo by Airman 1st Class Dylan Maher, Senior Airman Mikhaela Maglaque, a 28th Medical Group technician, cleans a child’s teeth during Childrens Dental Day, an annual clinic that provides free dental care for children of military servicemembers. The 28th provides outpatient medical care to 3,200 active-duty members and 17,000 beneficiaries, as well as retired personnel and their families.
The Ellsworth dental clinic provides the same high-level care as that of a civilian dental office, but the base clinic’s focus is to keep Airmen healthy and ready to fight U.S. adversaries. The clinic performs routine care such as fillings, en DOW ontics (root canals), oral surgery such as wisdom teeth removal, crowns and bridges, and annual checkups.
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Sal Island, Cabo Verde. (March 22, 2023): In this photo by Lance Corporal Mary Linniman, students from Zeca Ramos Elementary School pose for a photo with U.S. Marines during a visit to the USS Bulkeley at Sal Island, Cabo Verde. The kids joined the Marines for ship tours, sports and games, and a concert by the U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa Brass Band featuring a mixture of Afro-Portuguese and traditional songs.
The Marines landed in Cabo Verde for the African Maritime Forces Summit, a strategic-level forum that brings African maritime and naval infantry leaders together with their international partners to address transnational maritime security challenges within African waters including the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Mediterranean Sea.
The visit included ship tours for more than 80 delegates from 38 nations who witnessed shipboard firefighting demonstrations, joint U.S. Coast Guard and Cabo Verdean boarding drills, and simulated bomb-disposal robotics conducted by U.S. Marines.
The Bulkeley, homeported in Rota, Spain, is assigned to U.S. Navy Forward Deployed Naval Forces-Europe which operates throughout the waters of Europe and Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to the Arctic Circle. The ship’s motto is "Freedom's Torch”, and her crew has won both the Navy Unit Commendation and the Battle “E” award. The Bulkeley has a ship’s complement of 33 Officers, 38 Petty Officers, and 210 enlisted personnel.
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Corpus Christi, Texas. (March 23, 2023): In the famous “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, singer Gordon Lightfoot implores “Where does the love of God go, when the waves turn the minutes to hours”. For stranded mariners facing mortal danger miles from land, the U.S. Coast Guard is all that stands between them and disaster. Fortunately, the Coast Guard fields the highest trained and best equipped rescue teams in the world. In the above photo, a Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew works alongside a 45-foot Response Boat to assist a 44-foot fishing vessel taking on water with two people aboard 3 miles southeast of the Corpus Christi. Coast Guard crews help pump out the vessel and then escorted its thankful crew to the Corpus Christi Marina and safety.
Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi was commissioned in May of 2005 by joining all the units within the area of Port Lavaca throughout Brownsville under one unified command. Last year, Sector Corpus Christi personnel conducted over 450 search and rescue cases, assisted 554 people in distress, and saved 101 lives and $11 million in property. The unit’s law enforcement activities included seizing 22 small craft conducting smuggling and illegal fishing and confiscated over 5,500 pounds of drugs. The unit also interdicted over 130 illegal immigrants and performed 375 vessel inspections.
The Euro copter MH-65 Dolphin is a twin-engine helicopter used for medevac-capable search and rescue and can be armed for airborne use of force missions. There are now 102 Dolphins in the Coast Guard Fleet based at 17 cities on the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii, and the Great Lakes region.
For mariners lost at sea, the sight of a Coast Guard Dolphin bringing highly skilled rescuers is a wondrous thing indeed.