Charles Guthrie

Trevor G. Browne High School

Class of 1982

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First Name	Charles
Last Name	Guthrie
Graduation Year	Class of 1982
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	NV
Country	United States
About Me	Charles “Chuck” Guthrie, PhD — APG “All-Purpose Guthrie” \| Professional Introduction Y Bar O Ranch Services LLC Charles “Chuck” Guthrie, known by the military handle “APG”—short for “All-Purpose Guthrie”—is a retired U.S. Coast Guard veteran, multidisciplinary technical operations leader, emergency-services professional, educator, and field problem-solver with more than five decades of combined technical and operational experience. His background spans military service, electrical and mechanical systems, construction, heavy equipment, fabrication, ranch infrastructure, fire-service leadership, advanced emergency medicine, hazardous-materials response, counterterrorism, terrorism-response preparedness, emergency management, disaster operations, and project management. The name “All-Purpose Guthrie” reflects his ability to move between technical disciplines, operational leadership, emergency response, equipment troubleshooting, construction, logistics, and field execution while maintaining a systems-level understanding of the overall mission. APG_Professional_Bio_Text_Message.txt Military Service, Federal Response, and Hazardous Materials Chuck’s U.S. Coast Guard background combines electrical and electronics training with oil-pollution and hazardous-materials response supervision. His career record includes Coast Guard Electrician’s Mate School, advanced electronics training, and oil and hazardous-materials response-supervisor qualifications. These disciplines connect his technical troubleshooting background with the operational demands of emergency response. His federal-response experience includes managing multimillion-dollar Coast Guard oil-pollution, hazardous-materials cleanup, and rehabilitation projects, together with cost documentation and expenditure analysis for Environmental Protection Agency Superfund cleanup sites. That work required coordination with contractors, engineers, and federal agencies, attention to operational requirements and budgets, and management of complex field activities. His career record also includes a Coast Guard commendation associated with this work. APG_Professional_Bio_Text_Message.txt Fire Service, Emergency Medical Services, and Rescue Chuck’s fire-service experience dates to 1978 and includes structural and wildland firefighting, wildland–urban interface response, and service as a Deputy Fire Chief, administrator, and training officer. His responsibilities have included fire-service management, volunteer recruitment and supervision, personnel development, inspections, equipment maintenance, hazardous-materials operations, suppression, and coordination with state and federal organizations. He has developed operational training and course materials for emergency-response personnel and agencies. His paramedic background dates to 1982 and encompasses basic and advanced life-support response, advanced paramedicine, critical-care medicine, flight medicine, tactical medicine, and community paramedicine. His education and professional development include critical-care paramedic training through Creighton University, along with fire-service and EMS instructional qualifications. This background connects patient care, responder education, and emergency operations rather than treating them as separate disciplines. His rescue background includes wilderness rescue, orienteering, and high- and low-angle rescue, supplemented by confined-space operations instruction and training in lost-person incident management. APG_Professional_Bio_Text_Message.txt Counterterrorism, Terrorism Preparedness, and Disaster Operations Chuck’s broader background includes counterterrorism, counter-surveillance, emergency preparedness, and disaster response. His terrorism-preparedness work includes the design and delivery of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Integrated Emergency Management Curriculum, with service as Chief Exercise Controller for terrorism-focused programs serving Charleston, South Carolina; Wayne County, Michigan; and Fort Wayne, Indiana. These assignments involved translating community threats, vulnerabilities, and operational requirements into structured emergency-management exercises. His responsibilities included community hazard and vulnerability assessment; evaluation of emergency-response plans and standard operating procedures; consultation with government and emergency-management officials; assignment of emergency operations center roles; and development of functional exercises. He provided guidance and recommendations to improve community response capabilities. Additional programs addressed hazardous-materials and natural-hazard scenarios for Henrico County, Virginia; Ithaca, New York; and Lake Havasu, Arizona. His international experience includes participation in a U.S. Department of Justice program involving hazardous-materials response in the United Arab Emirates. He has also developed and delivered instruction for national and international audiences in organizational management, incident management, and emergency response, including health and safety programs prepared for delivery during hazardous-materials incidents and oil spills. APG_Professional_Bio_Text_Message.txt Education, Instruction, and Operational Leadership Chuck’s academic background includes a PhD in health and safety, a master’s degree in fire engineering, and undergraduate education in applied technical education, liberal arts, and paramedicine. His adult-education background includes extensive coursework through the University of Southern Maine. His career training and qualifications encompass fire-officer development, fire-service instruction, EMS instruction, fire inspection, hazardous-materials technician and specialist instruction, confined-space operations instruction, wildland incident command, and National Incident Management System/Incident Command System instruction covering ICS 100–400. His professional development also includes FEMA emergency planning and exercise development, infection-control supervision, and search-and-rescue incident management. As an educator and curriculum manager, he has designed and managed programs serving up to 200 students, developed textbooks and instructor manuals, supervised training personnel, and established initial and continuing qualification programs. His instructional work emphasizes the connection between knowledge, demonstrated competence, and performance under operational conditions. APG_Professional_Bio_Text_Message.txt Technical Operations and the APG Approach Beginning with electrical work in 1972, Chuck developed a technical background spanning industrial, commercial, marine, and residential electrical systems, alongside mechanical troubleshooting, construction, equipment operation, welding and fabrication, and rural infrastructure. Through Y Bar O Ranch Services LLC, he applies that experience to practical field-service requirements involving ranch infrastructure, equipment support, access and fencing work, mobile mechanical and welding work, vegetation management, and wildfire-mitigation support. His approach integrates situational awareness, disciplined planning, risk assessment, logistics, and execution. He emphasizes understanding the entire task, identifying dependencies before work begins, using the correct sequence, and avoiding unnecessary handling or corrective work. His operating principles are Pride, Professionalism, Competence, Discipline, Clarity, and Execution. The best overall description of Charles “Chuck” Guthrie, APG, is a senior multidisciplinary technical operations leader and all-purpose field problem-solver—someone capable of understanding a challenge from its engineering, operational, safety, financial, logistical, and human perspectives, developing a workable solution, and ...(read more)