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- My name is Jennifer Ortega.

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I am a fireman here in ANT Saugerties.

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(upbeat music)

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Our day-to-day usually is buoys,

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working on buoys, of
lighted buoys, towers.

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We also sometimes get
some search-and-rescues,

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not often, but we do also respond to that.

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But mostly we do work on
our buoys and our towers

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and whatever neighboring Aids we have.

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(upbeat music)

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What we did today, while we were underway,

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was we did a buoy evolution.

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So, we took one of our
buoys, set it on deck,

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put it back into the Hudson River,

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and then we took it
back out as a training.

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(upbeat music)

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- [Fireman] Got it.

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(chain rattling)

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(water splashing)

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After we did the buoy evolution,

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then we did a training on Man Overboard.

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Work-life here, overall, working
with the crew is amazing,

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our Command really
stresses training for us.

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We do constant trainings.

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Everyone's always super-helpful.

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The purpose in doing all
the trainings that we do

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is just to make sure that
when we're out there,

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in whichever conditions we are,

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whether it's good weather or bad,

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we're ready, and we are
able to work as a team,

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and get everything done safely.

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(upbeat music)

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I feel truly blessed to
be here in this unit,

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as my first-time unit out of boot camp,

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just because, as I said,
everyone's super-helpful here,

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and they really care about
your growth in the Coast Guard

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and outside of the Coast Guard.