 Sailors assigned to security forces at Naval Air Facility Masawa handle weapons on a regular basis. Petty Officer Aiden Campbell takes us in for a closer look. The masters at arms and auxiliary security forces of Naval Air Facility Masawa protect the personnel and equipment located around the base. A large part of their job involves handling pistols, rifles and shotguns, all of which require qualification and training. We got to teach them how to properly range in their weapon, how to properly take apart and put it back together, what the cycle of operations is, appropriate ranges, basically everything they learn we have to go over all of it one more time and if there's any gaps in their knowledge we have to fill those in. Unexpected damage at the shooting range made weapons qualifications difficult to schedule despite their importance. Well the range has been down for quite a long time, something along the lines of the two plates that come together like this. They have about a quarter inch gap between the two of them and one of those plates fell down which means that the bullets no longer go between them, they come flying back at the shooter so that's bad. With repairs finished, the training on Masawa Air Base has resumed. When they're able to take in the coaching and actually improve coming from some men it's never shot before to being able to coach them in their shooting anywhere from a sharp shooter to expert, it's a pretty good feeling. All of the range training and weapons qualifications play an important role in the missions of masters at arms and the auxiliary security forces. The reason they got to qualify regularly is because they might actually have to use that weapon. We have several assets out here that we have to protect and it's a very realistic possibility that they might actually have to employ a weapon so we have to make sure that they know enough to use it and be accurate with it. Petty Officer Aiden Campbell, Masawa Air Base, Japan.