Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Matt Scotten | Personnel Force Innovation | 01.31.2018
Firefighters from Military Ocean Terminal Concord, Calif., learn the many facets of operating watercraft from Reserve Soldiers like Sgt. Nicholas Chapman, of the 467th Transportation Company, Tacoma, Wash. Chapman is one of two Soldiers currently on orders to teach installation firefighters to operate watercraft so they can earn their Coast Guard certification and better fight fires aboard......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Matt Scotten | Personnel Force Innovation | 01.31.2018
Operating watercraft entails a good deal more than simply accelerating, stopping, and turning a boat. Sgt. Nicholas Chapman, a watercraft operator from the 467th Transportation Company out of Tacoma, Wash. trains MOTCO firefighters in everything from maintaining the boats’ mechanicals to navigation and map reading....
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Matt Scotten | Personnel Force Innovation | 01.31.2018
Sgt. Nicholas Chapman, a watercraft operator from the 467th Transportation Company out of Tacoma, Wash. trains MOTCO firefighter Jason Madariaga to operate a fireboat. Madariaga is one of several firefighters Chapman is training so they can earn their Coast Guard certification and better fight fires aboard ships in the bay....
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Josh Cote | Commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet | 06.08.2017
PORTLAND, Ore. (June 7, 2017) – The Portland fire and rescue boat David Campbell sprays its water cannons to celebrate the beginning of Portland Rose Festival and Fleet Week, June 7. The festival and Portland Fleet Week are a celebration of the sea services with Sailors, Marines and Coast Guard members from the U.S. and Canada making the city a port of call. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Josh Cote | Commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet | 06.07.2017
170607-N-UJ449-076 PORTLAND, Ore. (June 7, 2017) – The Portland fire and rescue boat David Campbell sprays its water cannons to celebrate the beginning of Portland Rose Festival and Fleet Week, June 7. The festival and Portland Fleet Week are a celebration of the sea services with Sailors, Marines and Coast Guard members from the U.S. and Canada making the city a port of call. (U.S. Navy......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Josh Cote | Commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet | 06.07.2017
170607-N-UJ449-011 PORTLAND, Ore. (June 7, 2017) – The Portland Fire and Rescue boat David Campbell escorts the Royal Canadian Navy coastal defense vessel HMCS Brandon (MM 710) as it arrives in Portland, Ore. for Rose Festival and Fleet Week, June 7. The festival and Portland Fleet Week are a celebration of the sea services with Sailors, Marines and Coast Guard members from the U.S. and......
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard Northeast | 05.22.2002
NEW YORK, New York (May 22)--A fireboat sprays plumes of water at the beginning of the Fleet Week parade of ships, off Battery Park, Manhattan Wednesday, May 22, 2002. USCG photo by PAC Brandon Brewer...
