Practice makes perfect
KADENA AIR BASE, Japan --
Knowing how to react and perform under stressful situations takes practice.
Kadena's Airmen got the chance to hone their skills during local operational readiness exercise Beverly High 12-3, March 12-16.
Preplanned scenarios during LOREs help prepare and teach Airmen the ability to react quickly to emergencies and treat causalities as if it were a real-world situation.
"[These scenarios] can actually happen in real-world situations," said Master Sgt. Darrell Swanson, a member of the exercise evaluation team assigned to the 18th Equipment Maintenance Squadron.
Training Airmen on how to do self-aid and buddy care will help Kadena as a whole and as individuals if they really encounter an emergency, he said.
Volunteers wearing moulage played victims in the scenarios and acted disoriented, wounded, and even deceased, to make the exercise as realistic as possible. This provided a sense of urgency to help Airmen train and gain insight into situations that can occur.
Using simulated victims shows Airmen what injuries they can come across in a real-world situation, the master sergeant said. "It is a little better training for [us] to actually dress the wounds and have a real concept or picture of what is exactly going on."
"I think everyone reacted pretty well; the organization was pretty good," said Airman 1st Class Beau Wilson, of the 18th EMS, while talking about an explosion scenario. "Lack of medical supplies made it pretty difficult, but I think everyone really worked on improvising and getting the critically wounded out of the area."
Throughout the year, LOREs are used to train Airmen in areas such as mobility processing, deployment, reception, bedding down forces here, sending forces away and self-aid and buddy care. This helps prepare them for possible real-world contingencies.
Kadena's Airmen got the chance to hone their skills during local operational readiness exercise Beverly High 12-3, March 12-16.
Preplanned scenarios during LOREs help prepare and teach Airmen the ability to react quickly to emergencies and treat causalities as if it were a real-world situation.
"[These scenarios] can actually happen in real-world situations," said Master Sgt. Darrell Swanson, a member of the exercise evaluation team assigned to the 18th Equipment Maintenance Squadron.
Training Airmen on how to do self-aid and buddy care will help Kadena as a whole and as individuals if they really encounter an emergency, he said.
Volunteers wearing moulage played victims in the scenarios and acted disoriented, wounded, and even deceased, to make the exercise as realistic as possible. This provided a sense of urgency to help Airmen train and gain insight into situations that can occur.
Using simulated victims shows Airmen what injuries they can come across in a real-world situation, the master sergeant said. "It is a little better training for [us] to actually dress the wounds and have a real concept or picture of what is exactly going on."
"I think everyone reacted pretty well; the organization was pretty good," said Airman 1st Class Beau Wilson, of the 18th EMS, while talking about an explosion scenario. "Lack of medical supplies made it pretty difficult, but I think everyone really worked on improvising and getting the critically wounded out of the area."
Throughout the year, LOREs are used to train Airmen in areas such as mobility processing, deployment, reception, bedding down forces here, sending forces away and self-aid and buddy care. This helps prepare them for possible real-world contingencies.
