Gunnery Sgt. Brandon Soetaert, the chief instructor

Gunnery Sgt. Brandon Soetaert, the chief instructor trainer for the Marine Corps Instructor Course of Water Survival with Expeditionary Warfare Training Group, Pacific and a Kansas City, Mo., native, instructs Cpl. Makiy Tamcke, a rifleman with 3rd Regiment, 3rd Marine Division and a Polson, Mont., native as he steps off the 15 foot diving aboard Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Dec. 1, 2015. MCICWS is a course for noncommissioned officers and higher to become water survival instructors, whose purpose is to make sure Marines are safe during swim qualification. "We teach them various strokes rescues, the dangers of hypothermia, and how to develop an emergency action plan if something were to happen,” said Gunnery Sgt. Zachariah Martin, a Marine Corps instructor trainer for MCICWS with Expeditionary Warfare Training Group, Pacific, and a Syracuse, N.Y., native. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Zachary Orr)