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1 When a person departs for Navy Recruiting Training Command in Great Lakes, Illinois, the main notion on their mind is being at sea, surrounded by nothing but ocean, as far as the eye can see, for months at a time. But a new recruit soon finds that water isn’t the bane of a Sailor, it is fire. Fire causes smoke, making it difficult to see and to breathe. It is fire that can destroy your home away from home. It is fire which can cause an entire ship’s crew to respond as if their lives depend on it, either in port, at sea, beneath the surface of the sea in a submarine or even in the air on one of the many Navy airplanes. Being a Sailor means being a firefighter.