On June 1, we will be doing rope training with the USAF ANG 181 MDG/CERFP. In plane language, this is the Indiana Air National Guard 181st Medical Group based out of Terre Haute, Indiana. They are also part of the CERFP program. What is CERFP?
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High Yield Explosive (CBRNE) Enhanced Response Force Packages (or CERFP teams) consist of approximately 186 Soldiers and Airmen. Each team has a Command and Control section, a decontamination element, a medical element, a casualty search and extraction element, and a fatalities search and recovery element. The Medical group will have 20 to 30 members.
The Medical Group works with the Search and Extraction element in accessing and removing victims and fatalities. They deploy as needed to CBRNE military side and Natural disasters on the civilian side.
We will be helping them on reviewing and improving their basic rope skills. We will have a varied range of skill levels from Doctors and Nurses, to former Para Rescue and Rangers, Firefighter/paramedics on their civilian jobs, to only Basic Training rope skills. We will also be assisting them with some new equipment that was assigned to them.
We will start with basic knot and equipment review as a group. Then, we will set up two or three stations, basic rappelling with belay, lowering and raising and confined space/ tripod. We will assign our team members to teach, be safety and assist at each station. We will work thought the stations in the morning and then add other skills in the afternoon as needed, such as Low angle 2:1, Sked work and basket tending.
If a Major disaster happens in Evansville, we could we working with some of the same personal. Our professionalism and knowledge will be enhanced by working with this group.
LOCATION: Training Tower
Time: 0800 to 1700
Team Members: Capt. Zuber, Lt. Knight, Capt. Leduc, Capt. Whitledge, Lt. Riley and Privates Gasser, Haury, Reiter , Turley and Dist. Chief Krack.
