Chief Warrant Officer Paul Patterson uses a GPS receiver to calculate coordinates for a potential landing zone near Makuto, Venezuela.
Navy Chief Warrant Officer Paul Patterson uses a global positioning system receiver to calculate coordinates for a potential amphibious landing zone at a beach near Makuto, Venezuela, on Jan. 3, 2000. Patterson is an engineering reconnaissance team member for Joint Task Force Fundamental Response. Nearly 100 U.S. service men and women are delivering supplies and providing humanitarian assistance to flood and mud slide survivors in Venezuela as part of Operation Fundamental Response.