CBRN EOD Staff Officer Incident Management Training

The projecting of the training must reflect complexity of the issue and needs to understand interdisciplinary requirements coming into its designing. As the setting up learning objectives goes beyond EOD borders, CBRN Subject Matters (SMEs) play an irreplaceable role in formulating those goals.  What is more, any SMEs experienced in manipulation with CBRN EO and skilled in lecturing would bring more light and realism into defining either enabling objectives and/or teaching points. Considering such a pool of experts the NATO EOD COE addressed several agencies/nations and individuals to participate and contribute to the project. Very handful and significant support and cooperation in this matter are provided by ITA National CIED COE, JCBRN Def COE in Czech Republic, German Armed Forces, and SVK National Centre for EOD as of today.

In order to have a platform for elaborating some crucial subtasks and harmonizing project related activities a working group was (WG) established. The key members of the WG represent: Cpt Marco Appodia (ITA NCIED COE), Maj Stephan Muck (DEU-A), Maj Karel Vydra (JCBRN Def COE), Cpt Lubos Trudic (JCBRN Def COE), LTC Robert Csaszar  (SVK NCOE EOD), Maj Stefan Sopcak (NATO EOD COE) and chairman Maj Pavel Truchly ( NATO EOD COE).

Aforementioned main players met at the NATO EOD COE facilities in Trencin, on 22-23 June 2015. The main intents of the meeting were to:

• Review a draft of the Performance, Learning, and Enabling Objective Matrix for development of the CBRN EOD Staff Officer Incident Management Training (CBRN EOD SO IMT) Course Control Document II (CCD II)
• Review the Part 1 (Course requirement) of the CBRN EOD SO IMT CCD II
• Obtain a general overview about possibilities and expertise resources for contributing to the pilot training launching in 2016
• Delineate ways ahead and milestones for the further training development

As expressed by the chairman the meeting objectives were achieved in a full extent. The project works have been progressing significantly not only during the WG session, but continuous dedicated effort from all members and effective communication ensures a steady headway.

Photo: LTC (Ret) Marian Mjartan