Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler Fire Department

==Area Served ==
Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler is a United States Marine Corps base located in the Japanese prefecture / island of Okinawa, one of the Ryukyu Islands, some 300 miles due south of mainland Japan. The base is a collection of facilities and satellite installations spread throughout Okinawa. The other facilities and satellite installations associated with the Camp Butler complex currently consist of Camp Courtney, Camp Foster, Camp Gonsalves, Camp Hansen, Camp Kinser, Camp Lester, Camp McTureous, Camp Schwab, Camp Shields and the White Beach Naval Facility. Additionally, Marine Corps Air Station Futenma Fire Department, which includes the Yomitan Auxiliary Airfield and Marine Wing Liaison Kadena, while not part of the Camp Butler complex, share many resources with it. Other Marine Corps installations in Japan include Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Fire and Emergency Services and Combined Arms Training Center (CATC) Camp Fuji. Supporting more than 32,000 active duty military and civilian personnel and encompassing more than 40,000 acres, MCB Butler is the base support for, and training areas provider for the III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). MCB Camp Butler is named in honor of USMC Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940). Nicknamed "Maverick Marine" during his 34-year career with the Corps, and a two time Medal of Honor recipient, Butler participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, and Central America; the Caribbean during the Banana Wars; and France in World War I. At the time of his death, he was the most decorated Marine in US history. 
== Department Profile==
Marine Corps Installations Pacific (MCIPAC) Fire and Emergency Services (FES) provides structural fire suppression, advanced life support (ALS), emergency medical service (EMS), technical rescue, hazmat services, and fire prevention and inspection onboard Marine Corps Base Camp Butler as well as for its nine satellite installations (The White Beach Naval Facility receives fire protection from USN apparatus). The department is comprised of US and Japanese civilian career firefighters. 
==History==
Camp Smedley D. Butler was formerly called Fort Buckner, named for Army Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. (July 18, 1886 – June 18, 1945), who commanded ground forces in the invasion of Okinawa on April 1, 1945, and was killed in the last days of the battle by enemy artillery fire, making him the highest-ranking United States military officer lost to enemy fire during World War II. The renaming of Buckner to Butler occurred after most US Army troops left Okinawa and the base was transferred to the US Marine Corps. Marine Corps Base Camp Butler's history began in 1955, when it was located at Camp Tengan near Camp Courtney on Okinawa. Most Marines stationed here belong to the III Marine Expeditionary Force or III MEF, headquartered at Camp Courtney. The III MEF activated in 1942 during World War II where it fought as the Marine Amphibious Force. It carried this name through the Vietnam conflict, after which it re-settled in Okinawa in 1971. Today, the Camp Butler headquarters is located in Building 1 of the camp.
==Apparatus Roster==
All pump/tank measurements are in US gallons.
===Fire Station 1 - Camp Foster, Nakagami-gun, Omura ===
:Ladder 1 (MC299101) - Pierce Quantum 6x4 (100' rear-mount)
:Tanker 1 (MC299011) - 2008 Peterbilt 340 6x4 / Pierce (SN#19140 or 19141)
:Rescue 1 - Mitsubishi Fuso walk-around
:Engine 11 (MC298981) - Pierce Quantum 
:Engine 12 (MC301675) - 2012 Pierce Saber (SN#25572-01)
==== Navy Hospital Oinawa ====
:Ambulance (94-78147) - Toyota HiAce
===Fire Station 2 - Camp Courtney, Kelly Street @ Brown Street ===
:Rescue 2 (MC298606) - Nissan walk-around
===Fire Station 3 - Camp Hansen ===
:Engine 31 (MC301674) - 2012 Pierce Saber (SN#25572-02)
:Engine 32 (MC302509) - 2015 Pierce Saber (SN#28027)
===Fire Station 4 - ===
:Engine 41 - 2011 Pierce Saber (SN#24128)
:Engine 42 - 2017 Pierce Saber (SN#30621)
===Fire Station 6 - Camp Kinser ===
:Ladder 6 - 2010 Pierce Quantum 6x4 (-/-/100' rear-mount platform) (SN#23407)
:Engine 61 - Pierce Saber 
:Engine 62 - 
===Fire Station 8 - Camp McTureous ===
:Engine 81 - 
===White Beach Naval Facility Fire Station===
:Engine 15-2 (N73-03537) - 2018 Pierce Saber (SN#31520) (USN apparatus)
===Camp Gonsalves Fire Station===
===Camp Lester Fire Station ===
===Camp Schwab Fire Station ===
===Camp Shields Fire Station ===
=== Station Unknown===
:Ladder 2 - 2016 Pierce Quantum 6x4 (100' rear-mount ladder) (SN#29109)
===Assignment Unknown===
:2020 Pierce Saber pumper (SN#33736)
:2009 International WorkStar 7400 SFA 4x4 / Pierce Type 3 wildland pumper (SN#22297) 
:2009 International WorkStar 7400 SFA 4x4 / Pierce dryside tanker (SN#21588) 
:2009 Pierce Quantum pumper (SN#21522)
:2008 Pierce Quantum pumper (SN#19973-02) 
:2008 Pierce Quantum pumper (SN#19973-01) 
:2008 International WorkStar 7400 SFA 4x4 / Pierce dryside tanker (SN#19277)
:2008 Peterbilt 340 6x4 / Pierce tanker (SN#19141 or 19140)
:(MC298605) - Nissan Condor / Morita pumper (Ex-Engine 12)
:(MC289415) - Mitsubishi Fuso Super Great / Morita aerial (-/-/40m rear-mount) (Ex-Ladder 1)
== Station Map==
Category:Okinawa Prefecture
Category:US Marine Corps Fire Departments
Category:Military fire departments (Extra-Territorial)
Category:Military departments operating Pierce apparatus
Category:Departments operating Morita apparatus