CBRNE exercise Airmen skills for real life emergencies

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  • By Airman 1st Class Adawn Kelsey
  • 82nd Training Wing Public Affairs
SHEPPARD AIR FORCE BASE, Tx --  Airmen exercise their skills for real life emergency circumstances during Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High-yield Explosive defense training, a key component that Airman will be assessed over during the unit compliance inspection. 

"During the UCI a select number of Airmen will be chosen at random to be tested on the skills that they have learned," said Norman Yeingst, emergency management readiness manager of the 82nd Civil Engineer Squadron. 

He suggested that Airmen study the newest version of the Airman's manual, Air Force pamphlet 10-100, which is given to the unit emergency management representative for distribution. 

"The students are allowed to refer to their manual to help them throughout the course. Some of the tasks are Mission-Oriented Protective Posture levels, contamination situations, labeling and explosives," Mr. Yeingst said. 

He said the ability to survive and operate rodeo evaluations have shown weak areas. Currently the ATSO Rodeo's and CBRNE training are being used to strengthen those areas. Every Airman is required to take a CBRNE class every 20 months, according to Air Force Instruction 10-2501. 

Tim Bergin, an 82nd CES readiness specialist said the certificates needed prior to taking the CBRNE class are, CBRNE version 3.0 online course and the counter improvised explosive device version 1.0 online courses. According to the AFI 10-2501 Airmen must also take task qualification training after they have taken the CBRNE training. He said the courses are available online on the advanced distributed learning service Web site. 

Mr. Bergin also said when these courses are completed by an Airman, it should then be documented in the Airman's training records immediately so they are up to date. 

James Little an 82nd CES readiness specialist, said unit schedulers should make sure all Airmen within their unit are in the Automated Civil Engineer System so the online records can be updated. 

"All unit schedulers should input any new person that comes into their unit in ACES, and should update it on a regular basis," Mr. Little said. "This makes it easy to find Airmen that attended the class and ensures that they get credit for the class as well."