Every year marine inspectors of the United States Coast Guard conduct a vital
assessment of Marine Vessel Westpac Express.
The ship transports marines and cargo throughout the Pacific Region and is run
by a civilian crew.
And it's the job of the inspectors to ensure the safety of everyone on the ship.
We're basically on board doing safety security, pollution prevention,
compliance examinations, making sure the ship's safe and secure and abiding with US
and international regulations. We'll go through basically the entire
ship, everything from the lifesaving, firefighting, the ship's systems,
basically making sure the ship's seaworthy, that it's sound, and that it's safe.
There's a lot of job satisfaction in knowing that what we're doing is basically
protecting sailors and the cargoes and the people that they carry all over the world.
I'm Air Force Staff Sgt. Josh Rosales, Fukuyama, Japan.