Shipboard Damage Control Training

Shipboard Damage Control Training What is the purpose for damage control training? - To provide a means to increase individual or team skills in the capability to use and operate both portable and installed equipment; training also should result in an increased knowledge of specific damage control tactics and procedures that allows personnel to complete required tasks in more expeditious manner. What are the five general functions that training teams provide? - (1) Training; (2) Exercise control; (3) exercise role-play; (4) Drills; (5) Monitor safety. What factors will influence the size of the shipboard training teams? - The size of the crew, number of qualified personnel, complexity of the exercise, and safety requirements. What shipboard training team is required for LHA/LHD/LPH.MCS/LPD only? - Aviation training team (ATT). What training team is required only for ships with medical departments headed by medical officers? - Medical training team (MTT). What positions should be included in the Damage Control Training team (DCTT)? - Team leader, team coordinator, watch station evaluators, trainers, and safety observers. Who serves as the team leader for the DCTT? - The executive officer. Who is responsible for the management of the DCTT? - The team leader. Who is responsible for organizing all team training periods, developing training events plans, and making all preparations in support of the event execution? - The DCTT team coordinator. Who will normally hold the position of DCTT team coordinator? - The ship's senior Damage Controlman or Hull maintenance Technician. What members of the DCTT are responsible for conducting on-sight observations and evaluations, safety walk throughs and pre-event checks? - Trainers, evaluators, and safety observers. What is the goal of damage control training? - To organize individual and team training to ensure shipboard readiness. What are two damage control training objectives for the damage control assistant (DCA) for damage control training? - (1) Training in the coordinating and monitoring of repair party's actions in multiple hit damage control problems; and, (2) Training in communicating vital information to ship control stations. What are tree damage control training objectives for damage control repair parties? - (1) Executing various damage control exercises; (2) Ensuring all repair party members can don and operate SCBAs, OBAs, and EEBDs; and (3) Training CBR teams in proper monitoring, decontamination, and contamination control procedures. What are the three responsibilities of the in-port damage control training team for damage control training? - (1) Training covering the duties of the in-port damage control training team; (2) Providing exercises in fire, underwater hull damage, and toxic gas drills; and, (3) Training in rescue and assistance. What are the responsibilities of damage control petty officers for damage control training? - (1) Training on responsibilities for setting and maintaining material YOKE; (2) Training on setting requirements for material condition YOKE; and, (3) Training on maintenance of portable damage control equipment. What are three methods of damage control training? - Lecture, hands-on training (sometimes called demonstration/performance), and