U.S. Coast Guard Reserve Petty Officer 1st Class Stephen DeMorat of the Redeployment Assistance and Inspection Detachment, Patrol Forces Southwest Asia, attached to the 831st Deployment and Distribution Support Battalion, measures the depth of a corroded dent in a shipping container, so it may be fixed before transporting hazardous material via sea at Camp Nathan Smith, Afghanistan, July 5. If hazardous cargo is not stored in sturdy containers, they can collapse under the weight of other containers stacked on top, with possibly deadly consequences.
<dl><dd>Unit: 16th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment</dd>
<dd>DVIDS Tags: U.S. Coast Guard; Petty Officer; RAID; container; Kandahar Airfield; HAZMAT; hazardous material; Camp Nathan Smith; ship; Coast Guard; Afghanistan; Kandahar; Fuller; redeploy; Bernardo Fuller; placard; U.S. Coast Guard Reserve; Redeployment Assistance and Inspection Detachment; Patrol Forces Southwest Asia; International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code; RAID Team: inventory; seaworthy; shipping container; Class Nine; Miscellaneous Hazardous Material; 831st Deployment and Distribution Support Battalion</dd></dl>
Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller
Taken on 5 July 2011
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