U.S. Army Reserve Warrant Officer Jacob Grobler, assigned to the 481st Transportation Company, supervises as the crew conducts operations on the deck of the United States Army Vessel Paulus Hook in Kodiak, Alaska June 10. Grobler, a vessel master trainee, serves as the current vessel master’s assistant during the Mertarvik Innovative Readiness Training. The crew of Army mariners, in partnership with U.S. Marines and local Alaskan authorities, are supporting the inter-agency task force by transporting personnel, equipment and supplies between various locations in order to help construct essential infrastructure to facilitate Newtok’s relocation efforts. Newtok is a Yupik Eskimo village of about 400 people on the Ninglick River in western Alaska, which is threatened by erosion, and melting and sinking permafrost.