TRAINING FOR DIVING MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AND SPECIAL
AMPHIBIOUS RECONNAISSANCE CORPSMAN
Currently, the U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman (HM) Divers do not possess adequate fitness levels to support the full spectrum of Special Operation’s diverse and expanding support roles. This deficit affects the medical support to joint Special
Operations, ranging from Naval Special Warfare, Army Special Forces, Marine Corps
Special Operations, and to the combat ground forces. Without a physical training program and dedicated location for training to match the fitness level Special Operators, and Marine/Army “Ground Pounder” units, these specialized units are forced to deploy with less fit medical personnel that could potentially be more of a liability than lifesavers. …show more content…
Housing for candidates after graduating from HM ‘A’ school could be a concern for Navy Medicine Training Support Center (NMTSC) as their primary concern is for the
‘A’ school students attending initial training for medical/medical support programs. This could easily be resolved with lodging agreements between the Army Hotel, Fort Sam
Houston, or NMTSC, allowing candidates to stay in schoolhouse barracks, until completion of the HM DMT/SARC physical preparatory course.
There is a need for a training facility but NMTSC does not want to sole carrier of the burden for locating a site and funding this type of project. NMTSC only leases the grounds that the HM school houses are located and the Fort Sam Houston Base Garrison has the final approval on all establishment of temporary or permanent structures/facilities.
Since all HM training facilities have memorandums of agreements, the solution for this issue could be revising current agreements with the Base Garrison, MWR and HM ‘A’
School to utilize pool and storage facility already in place (on the pool grounds), so that more than one entity is carrying the weight/burden. Another option could be …show more content…
NSW’s main concern (understandably) is training their SEAL operators and not HMs supporting their mission. Consequently, SARC and DMT community technical leaders, and Dive Motivator cadre, must develop and implement an functional conditioning/training program. The Diving Motivator cadre will train candidates in metabolic conditioning (cardio), plyometric exercises, and weight training. This program will introduce a combination of exercises and scenarios that will produce constantly varied situations/environments stimulating functional muscle enhancement ensuring those common muscle groups ARE conditioned adequately. Specifically, the muscles are strengthened for potentially stressful situations (e.g. combat, combat patrols, extensive and exceptional exposure operations). The following training elements are critical facets and definitions of a DMT and SARC fitness training regimen:
Functional Fitness. This is a method of physical enhancement that emulates the natural occurring movements of the human musculoskeletal system, on a day to day basis.
Functional Fitness involves weight training, metabolic conditioning and plyometric exercises (see attached physical training template). These exercises are combined
AMPHIBIOUS RECONNAISSANCE CORPSMAN
Currently, the U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman (HM) Divers do not possess adequate fitness levels to support the full spectrum of Special Operation’s diverse and expanding support roles. This deficit affects the medical support to joint Special
Operations, ranging from Naval Special Warfare, Army Special Forces, Marine Corps
Special Operations, and to the combat ground forces. Without a physical training program and dedicated location for training to match the fitness level Special Operators, and Marine/Army “Ground Pounder” units, these specialized units are forced to deploy with less fit medical personnel that could potentially be more of a liability than lifesavers. …show more content…
Housing for candidates after graduating from HM ‘A’ school could be a concern for Navy Medicine Training Support Center (NMTSC) as their primary concern is for the
‘A’ school students attending initial training for medical/medical support programs. This could easily be resolved with lodging agreements between the Army Hotel, Fort Sam
Houston, or NMTSC, allowing candidates to stay in schoolhouse barracks, until completion of the HM DMT/SARC physical preparatory course.
There is a need for a training facility but NMTSC does not want to sole carrier of the burden for locating a site and funding this type of project. NMTSC only leases the grounds that the HM school houses are located and the Fort Sam Houston Base Garrison has the final approval on all establishment of temporary or permanent structures/facilities.
Since all HM training facilities have memorandums of agreements, the solution for this issue could be revising current agreements with the Base Garrison, MWR and HM ‘A’
School to utilize pool and storage facility already in place (on the pool grounds), so that more than one entity is carrying the weight/burden. Another option could be …show more content…
NSW’s main concern (understandably) is training their SEAL operators and not HMs supporting their mission. Consequently, SARC and DMT community technical leaders, and Dive Motivator cadre, must develop and implement an functional conditioning/training program. The Diving Motivator cadre will train candidates in metabolic conditioning (cardio), plyometric exercises, and weight training. This program will introduce a combination of exercises and scenarios that will produce constantly varied situations/environments stimulating functional muscle enhancement ensuring those common muscle groups ARE conditioned adequately. Specifically, the muscles are strengthened for potentially stressful situations (e.g. combat, combat patrols, extensive and exceptional exposure operations). The following training elements are critical facets and definitions of a DMT and SARC fitness training regimen:
Functional Fitness. This is a method of physical enhancement that emulates the natural occurring movements of the human musculoskeletal system, on a day to day basis.
Functional Fitness involves weight training, metabolic conditioning and plyometric exercises (see attached physical training template). These exercises are combined