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A firefighter with the Urasoe Fire Department Rescue Team is rinsed off with water to sanitize their bunker gear during bilateral live-fire flashover training on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 7, 2021. The training between Marine Corps Installations Pacific Fire and Emergency Services and the Urasoe Fire Department Rescue Team began with an instructional period in which the local community firefighters were introduced to emergency fire response tactics practiced in the U.S. After the class, firefighters from both departments put on their safety gear and entered into an enclosed fire laboratory, known as the Swede Survival Phase 1 System, to observe the dynamics of a common fire which transitions into a flashover, a near-simultaneous ignition of most of the directly combustible material inside an enclosed area. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Alex Fairchild) - A firefighter with the Urasoe Fire Department Rescue Team is rinsed off with water to sanitize their bunker gear during bilateral live-fire flashover training on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 7, 2021. The training between Marine Corps Installations Pacific Fire and Emergency Services and the Urasoe Fire Department Rescue Team began with an instructional period in which the local community firefighters were introduced to emergency fire response tactics practiced in the U.S. After the class, firefighters from both departments put on their safety gear and entered into an enclosed fire laboratory, known as the Swede Survival Phase 1 System, to observe the dynamics of a common fire which transitions into a flashover, a near-simultaneous ignition of most of the directly combustible material inside an enclosed area. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Alex Fairchild)

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Ethan Branch, a career planner with Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installation Pacific, poses for a photo on Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 6, 2021. Branch was awarded the Commandant of the Marine Corps Career Planner of the Year award for 2021. Marines nominated for Career Planner of the Year have displayed a consistent high level of performance that significantly and positively impacted mission accomplishment, reflecting exceptional leadership, management and organization skills, devotion to duty, and initiative in support of maintaining a quality enlisted career force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Karis Mattingly) - U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Ethan Branch, a career planner with Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installation Pacific, poses for a photo on Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 6, 2021. Branch was awarded the Commandant of the Marine Corps Career Planner of the Year award for 2021. Marines nominated for Career Planner of the Year have displayed a consistent high level of performance that significantly and positively impacted mission accomplishment, reflecting exceptional leadership, management and organization skills, devotion to duty, and initiative in support of maintaining a quality enlisted career force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Karis Mattingly)