Coast Guard Ens. Mathew Babot, stationed at Coast Guard Sector Lower Mississippi River, and U.S. Army Capt. Joseph Varin, commander of the South Carolina National Guard’s 125th Multi-Role Bridge Company, deployed from Abbeville, S.C. explain how their crew's are working together and testing new rescue capabilities Monday, Sept. 24, 2018 in Georgetown, South Carolina. During the test, Coast Guard and National Guard members rehearsed their plan of flood-response operations that includes offloading large rafts from the Carroll Ashmore Campbell Marine Complex in Georgetown, S.C., to be joined together to make a larger raft with room to fit a commercial truck or other priority response vehicles, which would then be ferried by boat to the other side of the river in anticipation of possible flooding in the Winyah Bay area.
(U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 1st Class Michael De Nyse)
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