if your views are still the same take a look at picture 4801 and picture 4416 or take a look at east susex fire service website and read about them on there.
No, station officers ride on the appliance as he is in charge of the watch and appliances, you must be getting mixup with the role structure's, or the rank markings bud.
In this case as i've done my homework your brigade structure is known as fire fighter, crew manager 2nd in command (LFF) watch manager (SO) station manager and so on... your brigade role or rank structure is much different to my brigade and some of the others in the uk, very confusing.
i know where you have gone wrong east sussex have firefighter and a sub officer(Crew Manager) in 1 appliance 2nd appliance firefighter and a Watch Manager and station manager in the fire car in picture above which east sussex now have 9 of them new
Added by Fozaib Khan on 04 December 2007.