Eight airmen assigned to the 673rd Safety Forces Squadron participated in a Fly Away Safety Staff coaching course at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Sept. 15-19.
Fly Away Safety Staff coaching is a five-day, 40-hour course that challenges airmen bodily and mentally to reinforce their lethality whereas defending plane, aircrew, cargo and distinguished guests throughout operations on austere airfields.
They support in humanitarian missions and Struggle Division operations; their missions usually contain offering a safety perimeter round plane at unsecured, overseas airfields.
“Fly Away Safety is a certification that ought to carry quite a lot of weight — it’s not in your common safety forces member,” mentioned Air Drive Employees Sgt. Taylor Davis, 673rd Safety Forces Squadron noncommissioned officer in command of small unmanned plane techniques. “Right here at [Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson], we maintain the FAST to a better commonplace, and we practice them at a better commonplace; we practice them to win.”
Throughout the course, college students endure fight and hands-on coaching. They work by way of real-world simulations, demonstrating expertise they’ve realized all through the week. Among the coaching included peer-on-peer wrestling, baton analysis and flightline coaching with a C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 517th Airlift Squadron.
“We practice our members to exit to those austere places or airfields that shouldn’t have ample safety,” mentioned Air Drive Tech. Sgt. Adam Stanley, 673rd Safety Forces Squadron base protection noncommissioned officer in cost. “They’ve been trusted in defending personnel and property to offer a safer setting inside their space of accountability.”
The 673rd Safety Forces Squadron conducts FAST coaching programs a number of instances a yr, not just for its personal members but in addition for different Air Drive models. They plan to develop this system to reinforce safety for airfields and plane.
