 security forces and their boat patrol. Our area of responsibility is all of the waterways that's surrounding the Air Force Base all the way out to the Chesapeake Bay. A good rule of thumb for us is if the Coast Guard and the Navy don't need us all the way out there then we're not gonna go out there. So our job is to make sure that everyone's maintaining their distance from the shoreline. That's all the way down to our weapons facilities, down to the Kingtree Bridge and out all towards the Chesapeake Bay. We also assist the Coast Guard in rescues if there's any type of boating incident or accident outside. We help them in the surrounding waters going. So out of all the Air Force Bases, only four of them have a Marine Patrol. Most of them are down in Florida. Most of our coastline here at Langley Air Force Base is water so we are one of the exceptions up here on the northeast coast. Nobody thinks of boats when they think of the Air Force. Usually they think the Navy or the Coast Guard. So when I joined the Air Force I didn't think I was gonna be flying planes but I definitely didn't think I could be driving a boat around day to day. So for security forces members, obviously the first criteria is you need to be a security forces member and you'd be stationed here at Langley Air Force Base. Then we'll send you through the NASBOLA boat course you'll go through and you'll get a bunch of time out on the water. You'll train with the NASBOLA instructors who are all retired Coast Guard or Navy instructors. We'll train you on everything that there is to know about the boat all the way from the maintenance of the boat to the operation of the boat and then you'll go to the in-class portion where you'll learn everything about navigation, tying lines and tying knots and then we'll get you out here and we'll do a final practical exam. You'll go and you'll do everything that the instructors ask you to do docking to search and rescue to regular boat operation. I enjoy it. It's really nice to get to see the shores of Langley Air Force Base from a little bit of a different perspective than everybody else. Not a lot of people know that the Air Force has boat patrols so it's really cool to get out on the water and interact with people who didn't know you existed.