The Good Samaritan Fund was created to financially aid smokejumpers, smokejumper pilots and their families. The Smokejumper Project had become a permanent establishment of the USFS in 1944. Ed Courtney was a smokejumper based in Missoula, Mont., in 1958. The Winthrop operation remained at its original location, as North Cascades Smokejumper Base. Ron Stoleson was a smokejumper based in Missoula, starting in 1956. She sets her sights on becoming a smokejumper. He then worked as a "Smokejumper" for three years in Alaska. The last CPS smokejumper left the service in January 1946. A smokejumper base is also nearby, located between Winthrop and the nearby town of Twisp. With Bludgeon, Scourge, Dreadwind, Smokejumper, and Sunstorm, he easily stomped it. Cooley was the first Smokejumper to jump on an operational fire jump. The back is engraved with the Missoula, MT smokejumper base logo endorsement. The first timepiece, a chronograph named Smokejumper, was issued in 2005. Doug Houston was a smokejumper for 28 years. Laird Robinson was a smokejumper in Montana for the Forest Service for over 10 years.