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Nate Hess, a smoke jumper equipment specialist at T and D, focuses on testing, improvement, and delivery of essential equipment for smokejumpers. The components include jumpsuits, parachutes, automatic opening devices, helmets, gloves, and jumpsuit material, with an emphasis on canopy performance for accurate landing in rough terrain. The use of fixed-wing aircraft enables rapid delivery of firefighters and cargo, including paracargo transportation and essential resources like food, water pumps, hose, fuel, chainsaws, and communications. Continuous efforts are made to improve program, design, technology, and equipment for smokejumpers, with collaboration on standardization for equipment criteria and a strong emphasis on quality assurance and control checks to ensure safety from the first call to the fire mission.
| Date Taken: | 02.14.2024 |
| Date Posted: | 09.27.2025 17:04 |
| Category: | Package |
| Video ID: | 979651 |
| VIRIN: | 240214-U-OC830-7438 |
| Filename: | DOD_111326516 |
| Length: | 00:03:04 |
| Location: | US |
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