A 2007 Huron Senior High School graduate and Huron, South Dakota, native is serving in the U.S. Navy as part of the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise, Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC).
Petty Officer 1st Class Kristina Macdonald is a fire controlman attached to Commander, Carrier Strike Group One, currently operating out of San Diego.
Fire controlmen provide weapon direction systems employment recommendations. They also perform organizational and intermediate maintenance on digital computer equipment, subsystems, and systems.
Macdonald applies the lessons she learned from Huron to her work in the Navy.
“I grew up on a ranch so, I know about hard work,” said Macdonald. “This is really easy to me.”
As the world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring safety at sea and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2018 is the 26th exercise in the series that began in 1971.
(Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Electa Berassa, Navy Office of Community Outreach)