ES Training
ORWG Emergency Services Training
updated 11/24/21
Contact the ORWG ES Director
ORWG 2022 Annual Training Plan
Contents
- Announcements
- Microsoft Teams Training
- FY 2022 Training Schedule
- Internal Training Links
- Skills Evaluators (SET) and Qualified Supervisors
- External Training Links and Calendars
- FEMA Training Links
- Virtual Learning Materials
- Useful SAR Links
Announcements
FEMA Damage Assessment Training
During last year’s Hurricane Ida event, hundreds of our members were able to support the Hurricane Ida response by taking part in crowdsourced imagery-based damage assessments for FEMA. Over the past several months, FEMA and the CAP Geospatial Team have updated the Damage Assessment tool that will be used this year, and the training associated with it from the lessons learned. If you are interested in supporting again this year, you will need to complete the required training. It involves 4 modules and should take between 2-6 hours to complete. Beyond the basic knowledge-based lessons and quizzes, interested personnel will need to conduct practice assessments and be graded against them using the actual tool.
All CAP members, cadet or senior member, regardless of where they are in the world can sign up. Once after completing the training, you can be involved in supporting a disaster response (hurricane, fires, tornadoes, floods, etc.) if called upon to help. Again, regardless of where you live.
You must complete the training to be eligible.
To sign up, please click on the following link: Geospatial Damage Assessments Training | FEMA Geospatial Resource Center (arcgis.com)
Note: please only submit one account request, it may take a day to receive the email with the login details, so please be patient. Submitting multiple requests for access will just create confusion and possibly cause errors in the sign up.
If you have issues or don’t receive an email after the first day, please have them send an email to the help email: fema_dmg_assmnts@cap.gov.
Once you complete the first 3 modules, it may also take time for the automated email giving you access to the damage assessment module to be sent to you. When you complete the assessments, and select the grids as completed, a final completion email will be sent if you passed.
For additional training, sign up to join the CAP Geospatial Community of Interest (COI), on the National homepage; https://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/programs/emergency-services/cap-geographic-information-systems-gis. You will be added to the COI and can ask questions in the FEMA Damage Assessment Training channel and can collaborate with their peers. It will also be where all major disaster damage assessment responses will be conducted from.
FEMA Shelter Field Guide Training
With the increasing need for help at shelters, supporting different organizations when needed is an excellent opportunity for CAP members to support their communities. The Shelter Field Guide course provides the knowledge and skills required to provide support. Members please follow the instructions and links under the “To Apply” to apply for the course. If you have any questions, the best source of information is the EMI Training Point of Contact listed on the attachment. Classes are offered on a first come, first serve basis, so please register as quick as possible in order to have a spot in the course.
Shelter Field Guide Training Announcement Attachment
FEMA K0419 – Shelter Field Guide Training for State and Local
Communities – Virtual course
Points of Distribution (POD) Training
Microsoft Teams Training
As our use of Teams grows please encourage squadron members unfamiliar with Teams to watch these training videos provided by Microsoft. Microsoft also offers training videos on YouTube.
FY 2022 Training Schedule
Note that this schedule is subject to change and may be impacted by COVID precaution requirements. The third weekend of the month is the designated ORWG driven ES training weekend. Please note the exceptions to this schedule.
Date |
Location |
Mission
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Project Officer
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Activity |
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Oct 16-17 |
UAO |
22-T-3670 |
Lt Col D Rudawitz |
Saturday
Sunday
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Nov 20-21 |
Hillsboro (HIO) |
22-T-3670 |
Project Officer: |
Saturday
Sunday
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Jan 15 |
Virtual |
22-T-3670 |
Project Officer: Lt Col D Rudawitz |
Saturday
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Feb 26-27 |
HIO (WCCS) |
22-T-3670 |
Project Officer: |
The focus for this weekend will be medical skills including Adult/Child/Infant CPR, Use of AED, First Aid, Bleeding Control, & Bloodborne Pathogens training. Location is Washington County Composite Squadron HQ, located at 3301 NE Cornell Rd, Hillsboro, at HIO Training will be scheduled from 0800-1700, on both days and the same training is being offered on each day. Only sign up to attend one of the two days (Saturday or Sunday). Sign-ins will begin either day at 0730. The weekend is limited to 32 participants, 16 attendees on Saturday and 16 attendees on Sunday. Please indicate which day you are requesting to sign-up for when you register. The instructors will be donating their time to instruct the courses, so that cost is waived for CAP members. However, there is still expenses related to manakin and equipment use, as well as certification cards. The total for these costs is $40.00. This cost is being passed on to the students, at cost (no-mark-up). Additionally, lunch will be provided for $5.00. Course payment (required), and lunch (optional), is due at check-in, and we would ask for cash and exact change, if possible. |
Mar 19-20 |
Eugene Wing HQ |
22-T-3670 |
Project Officer Lt Col Tim Paquin |
Saturday March 19:
Sunday March 20;
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Apr 23-24 |
Grants Pass Squadron and Airport |
22-T-3670 |
Project Officer 1st Lt John D. Price Host Unit: Grants Pass |
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May 14--15 |
UAO with staging at MFR and RDM |
22-T-5125 |
Project Officer: Lt Col D Rudawitz |
This SAREX will be a full functional Disaster Relief exercise with a Type 3 incident command team. Focus will be on AP, airborne recon, airborne tactical repeater testing, and additional ground-based image collection activities. We will be conducting tests of the airborne repeaters in the C-172s to provide cross-coastal mountain communications from the cities along US 101 back to Salem and Medford. COVs will be driven along US 101 to test with the airborne repeaters back to Salem or Medford and remain in contact with our fixed repeaters and the ICP. These tests will be validating the use of customer provided VTAC channel repeaters to establish critical communications to the coast during the early days after a CSZ event. Personnel desiring to participate in the repeater testing should contact Col Schmitt (James.Schmitt@orwg.cap.gov ) with their interest. The incident command team will assemble on Friday May 13 at Aurora to build the Incident Action Plan (IAP) for Saturday May 14 so that the morning sorties can be launched as soon as possible. The base at Aurora will open at 0730 each day for sign in and briefings. Lunch will be available at a cost of $5 per member each day due at sign in. Staging bases will be located at the CAP facilities at Redmond and Medford and sorties will be managed from Aurora but launched and recovered to Redmond and Medford for the aircraft and personnel at those locations. Register to attend at: https://orwg.cap.gov/calendar/may-sarex-test/ Registration for this event is recommended but participation will not be restricted to pre-registered personnel. However, personnel that do not pre-register may not be able to participate in their desired qualification. |
Jun 25-26 |
HIO |
Project Officer: Lt Col D Rudawitz |
Full functional exercise Wildland Fire Response. The June ORWG exercise will be held on the weekend of June 25-26. This will be an exercise with the scenario of CAP support to wildfire operations, much like our actual mission in 2020. The incident management team will be located at the Washington County Composite Squadron facility at HIO. Air operations will be conducted out of HIO. Operations will include air, ground, and UAV. As this is an exercise, ancillary training activities will not be conducted. Participants (players) may be either qualified or supervised trainees. Col Nick Ham will be the IC. This is an all hands-on deck exercise and we need the participating of aircrews, ground personnel, UAV operators, incident command staff, flight line, communications, and base support staff. . Cadets with appropriate ES qualifications (qualified or trainee) are encouraged to participate. Preparatory email messages and alerting, simulating our actual activities if this were a real-world mission, will be used as we approach the training weekend. All exercise messages will start and end with EXERCISE EXERCISE EXERCISE. The IC will determine when the IMT will assemble to begin work on an incident action plan (IAP) for operations commencing on Saturday June 25th. There will also be a Microsoft Teams meeting for players on June 20 at 1900 PDT. Register to participate (not required by highly advised) at link Players Meeting Monday June 20 1900-1930 Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer or mobile app Click here to join the meeting Or call in (audio only) +1 628-225-1673,,978299593# United States, San Francisco Phone Conference ID: 978 299 593# |
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Jul 16-17 |
UAO |
22-T-3670 |
Project Officer: Lt Col D Rudawitz |
UDF and airborne DF drills with the primary base located at the CAP Operations Center at the Aurora Airport (UAO) located at Willamette Aviation. Remote operations, managed from the ICP at UAO, will be authorized provided there are suitable DF targets to support the location. Some base staff will be needed at UAO to include AOBD, GBD, CUL, MRO, and MSA. All personnel must be either qualified for their assignment or be approved for advanced training if they are a trainee. All trainees must be supervised by an appropriately qualified member. Members are to be wearing appropriate complete CAP uniforms. We will need a maximum response of aircraft and corporate vehicles to support this training activity. Base will open for sign-in at 0730 am each day. Registration for this event is recommended but participation will not be restricted to pre-registered personnel. However, personnel that do not pre-register may not be able to participate in their desired qualification. |
Jul 23-24 |
HIO |
22-T-5125 |
Project Officer: 2LT Pat Wineman Host Unit: WCCS |
AP (Airborne Photographer) qualification training has been rescheduled. A huge thank you to Washington County Composite Squadron (WCCS) for offering to host. Training will be held July 23-24. The course will be held in conjunction with the already scheduled Cadet O-Ride weekend at HIO. Prerequisites to attend AP training include:
If you have questions about the prerequisites, please reach out to your squadron commander. Once you are registered, an email will go out with the list of Familiarization and Preparatory Training (Fam & Prep) that will need to be completed prior to attending the in-person portion of training. Please watch your inbox for an email from Lt Patrick Wineman of WCCS, with information on how to register. Registration spots are limited, and are first-come-first-serve. O-RidesThe O-Rides will be occurring on Sat/Sun, 23-24 July, 2022. 0800-1700 each day. Cost is $5.00 per day for lunch. Cadets must be a current member with CAPID and in uniform (ABU or FDU). POC is 2LT Pat Wineman (M) 971.570.3547 |
Aug 20-21 |
UAO |
22-T-5522 |
Project Officer Lt Col D Rudawitz Host Unit: N/A |
This exercise will consist of asynchronous activities involving both field resources and incident management staff. The scenario will be disaster relief (DR) focusing on typical assignments including aerial and ground- based imagery collection and communications support. Imagery collection targets will include critical infrastructure and transportation. Various imagery collection devices (VIRB, Nikon, WALDO (if available) will be employed for training and comparison data between these systems. Resources will be dispatched and recovered to their home bases and not relocated to consolidated fixed wing bases. Incident management will be a combination of in-person and virtual simulated a DR environment where relocation is not appropriate. This distributed approach is also expected to increase participation and sortie flights. Incident management staff skills review and training will be conducted, in person, at UAO while field operations are underway. Taskings will be developed, in advance of the exercise, to facilitate deployment of field resources so that they do not have to wait on planning activities. Register at this link in the Wing Calendar. |
Requesting A5 Funded Training
Wing controls a budget for these funds and we want to see that all units are able to take advantage of the funding to accomplish valuable field training for their personnel. To request funding for unit training activities please provide the following information in an email. You can click on this email link which will create an email message that you can fill out the required information listed below - david.rudawitz@orwg.cap.gov.
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Proposed date(s),
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Point of Contact name, phone, and email,
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Airport(s) to be involved
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General area where sorties will be flown and grid(s),
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Aircraft to be used,
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Personnel to be trained and the affected qualification(s)
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Estimated number of sorties and total flight hours,
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Estimated cost.
Internal Training Links
- ORWG ES Training Channel - Link - This MS Teams channel in the ORWG ES Team is the ORWG repository for ES and Operations Training including ES and Operations Officers professional development track. You can find training materials, links to recordings of previously presented trainings, and some reference materials.
- ORWG ES Training Recording Catalog - March 2022 - Here is a consolidated list of ORWG ES training recordings.
Links to the ORWG ES Training Team specific qualification channels. Each include task guides (as available), SQTR blanks, training materials, presentations, recorded webinars, and links to other materials.
Air Crew & Flight Line |
Ground Team |
Base |
UAS |
Other |
Skills Evaluators (SET) and Qualified Supervisors
Skills Evaluators, also known as SETs, are appointed by the Wing ES Director and are authorized to validate the training of CAP members. See CAPR 60-3 2-2. Documenting Specialty Qualifications para a. Reports showing the SET personnel are available in OpsQual. However, eServices permissions restrict members to obtaining this information for their unit of assignment and below. Below is a list of the ORWG SET personnel. This list will be periodically update.
ORWG Skills Evaluators (SET) - Feb 2022
Mandatory SET Meeting 8/1/22 Recording
Forms
External Training Links and Calendars
FEMA Training Links
- EMA Region X Training Opportunities January 2021
- July 2021 Edition of the Region X Training & Exercise Quarterly Compendium
- FEMA Emergency Management Institute (EMI)
- Online Independent Study Courses
FEMA ICS Courses Online
- IS-100 - Introduction to the Incident Command System- Link
- IS-200 - Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response - Link
- IS-700 - An Introduction to the National Incident Management System (NIMS) - Link
- IS-800 - National Response Framework, An Introduction - Link
FEMA Course Application Approvals
All members are encouraged to attend Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) developed courses hosted on campus at Emergency Management Institute (EMI), at a regional delivery site, or sponsored by the states. In general, CAP’s agreement with EMI is that any CAP member wishing to attend E courses, those resident courses held at EMI, are expected to complete the online application at DHS-FEMA General Admissions Application or the FEMA Form 119-25-1 (Block 22) and have it signed by their Wing Commander, and this generally applies to other courses run through their system/process as well; the host of the course determines if this will be done by an online application or by the use of the form and obviously has greater control over applications.
Additionally, for those interested in attending a FEMA Train-the-Trainer Instructor course on behalf of CAP, CAP’s agreement with EMI is for the member to have the online application or form signed by the CAP Director of Operations or designee. It is normally recommend completing the electronic application if given the option as it is very quick for processing and makes it easier for EMI, as well, so it goes smoother. To complete the form, each student must have a Federal Student Identification number (SID) which can be obtained at Register for your FEMA SID (dhs.gov); they can’t just leave it blank or use their CAPID instead.
FEMA Shelter Field Guide Training
With the increasing need for help at shelters, supporting different organizations when needed is an excellent opportunity for CAP members to support their communities. The Shelter Field Guide course provides the knowledge and skills required to provide support. Members please follow the instructions and links under the “To Apply” to apply for the course. If you have any questions, the best source of information is the EMI Training Point of Contact listed on the attachment. Classes are offered on a first come, first serve basis, so please register as quick as possible in order to have a spot in the course.
Shelter Field Guide Training Announcement Attachment
FEMA K0419 – Shelter Field Guide Training for State and Local
Communities – Virtual course
FEMA Points of Distribution (POD) Training
Virtual Learning Materials
Login to ORWG Office 365 account maybe required to view.
NESA Training
CAP National Emergency Services Academy training materials (presentations), task guides, recorded training course - Link
ES Officer Orientation
ES Officer Professional Development and Support
Air and Flight Line Operations Training
Air Crew Training
- Air Crew Briefing/Debriefing (January 2022) - Slides Briefing - Slides Debriefing - Recording
- Staying in Contact (October 2020) - Slides - Recording
- Blue/Silver Air Operations (7/18/20) - Slides - Recording
- Review of Form 5 Process (7/18/20) - Slides - Recording
- WAWG AP Training on YouTube - link
- MO and MS Checklist New
- FEMA Uploader ORWG Instructions
Air Operations Branch Director (AOBD)
- How do you keep track of it all? Recording MS Planner tool utilization as a Virtual T-card system. Techniques on how to setup the program, an operational review of the ORWG 2020 Fire Missions use of this system, and lessons learned.
- Air Crew Briefing/Debriefing (January 2022) - Slides Briefing - Slides Debriefing - Recording
Flight Line Training
- FLM training program from Fredericksburg Composite Squadron
Basic ES Training
Alerting
GES Training
- GES Training folder
- Basic GES Training slides
- Taking FEMA Course slides
- ES Qualification Process June 2021 - Webinar Slides
- ORWG 2022 Wing Conference presentation Slides
- ES Virtual Operations Tools - Webinar Slides March 2022
- ORWG TTP Index
- Webinar and TTP Cross Reference
MRO Training
- WMIRS Comm Log Training - Slides Webinar
- Entering position report data into WMIRS from ADS-B sources - Slides
- Space Weather Effects on Communications: Effects, Operational Impacts, and Mitigations for Communications Systems, Webinar May 17, 2022 Slides Recording (located in PCR Communications Team)
- Other communications training can be found on the ORWG Communications webpage
WMIRS Training
- WMIRS training videos - link
- eServices Staging Server - https://staging.capnhq.gov - You can use the eServices applications on the Staging Server without any concern of “messing” up any actual data. For example, you can practice with the features and capabilities of WMIRS without causing the issues such actions would create if you did the same work on the production server. If you encounter issues logging into the Staging Server, try using the password assistance option available on the splash page and reset your password.
Wildland Fire
ICS Training
ICS Fundamentals Review (7/18/20)
Area Command Briefing (7/18/20)
IMT Training
IMT Personnel
IAP Development Overview (08/18/20)
Missing Aircraft Search Procedures Training (5/16/20)
Operational Planning - The Tactics Meeting and ICS-215 (7/28/20)
Planning P Workshop
Planning Section Training
- Target Tasking Package Collection (MS Teams)
- Missing Aircraft Lead Processing in the Planning Section (Oct 2020) - Slides Recording
Resource Unit Training (5/16/20)
Logistics Section Training
Resource & Supply Ordering Training (8/4/20)
SAR Training
ELT DF Training
- Basic ELT DF Training - Slides - Recording (1.5 hours)
- Urban ELT DF Training - Slides - Recording
- Back to the Future: Second Generation Beacons - Slides Webinar 2G Beacon Audio 2G Beacon Video - Audio Trace Comparison - Field Testing Draft Report
- ELT Sound
- ELT Sound (close into the signal source)
- Locating Non-Distress ELTs and EPIRBs (published by LTronics)
- LTronics LL16 Manual (Yellow Brick)
- LTronics LH Manual
Virtual Ground SAR Training
Useful SAR Links
CAP Grid System Information
- CAP Grid Website
- CAP Grids
- Gridded sectional maps (in the PCR IMT Kit)
- Gridded sectional maps (in the ORWG IMT Kit)