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Standing on Guard We Fly the CH-149 Cormorant SPRING IssUE 2017 Standing on Guard We fly the CH-149 Cormorant AIR FORCE SUPPORT MEDITERRANEAN LIFESAVERS HIGH-TECH TRAINING 36th Rescue Squadron Italian Coast Guard Toll Air Ambulance Spring 2017 1 YOU ORDER. WE DELIVER. Delivering spare parts when and where you need them is the highest priority for Chauncey Mitchell and the Customer Support team at Airbus. In recent years we have invested a lot of time, effort, and money to improve our service, and it shows. We’re delivering parts you order at a 97 percent on-time rate. For an AOG, the needed part ships within four hours 98 percent of the time. Our spare parts inventory exceeds $115 million, and more than 60,000 unique part numbers are in stock. Our mission is to keep your aircraft fl ying. Our commitment is to meet and exceed your expectations. WithYouOnEveryFlight.com 2 Vertical 911 Magazine Spring 2017 3 We have also generated an impressive following. 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COB1047_Vertical911_2017_HfPg.indd 1 4/18/2017 10:44:28 PM Spring 2017 7 COLUMN C FOCUS ON PROFESSIONALISM COLUMFOCUS ON PROFESSIONALISM | TONY KERN N PREPARING FOR THE UNEXPECTED Emergency responders face an interest- so you assume you don’t need to plan potential sources (local law enforcement, ing dilemma. On the one hand, the environ- — until the day you do. webcams, other agencies, etc.)? Can you ment is fraught with a never-ending flow of • No time specifically allocated to do it develop communications protocols for fast new circumstances and challenges. On the in depth. Planning takes time, and if you response when you need it? other, it is often tremendously risk-laden are always waiting for all the variables Next, make a list of what you already and demands careful planning. But how to fall into place, that time never arrives. know. For example, the weather minimums can you plan for factors and challenges you There is a way around this, which we will you can operate in. The capability of your don’t yet know? How can you plan for the get to in a moment. technology. The proficiency — or lack unexpected? • They don’t know how to do it in depth. thereof — of your team. The first critical element is to arrive every Planning is a skill that is learned; there Third, identify what you don’t know, and day (or night) with your “A game” intact. are good ways to do it, and there are bad can’t know in the present. Where will the Physiologically ready, proficient in your vo- ways to do it. Learn how to do it right call come from? What remote possibilities cational tasks, and with a relaxed vigilance and make it a permanent skill, not only exist? Think mass casualty events, com- that sets the stage for great situational for your emergency response mission, munications failures, hostile actors at the awareness. but for life in general. call location, and worst-case scenarios. Next, you need to give planning serious A method for planning for the unknown Use this list to construct multiple hypo- conscious thought and realize there are has been developed both in the military thetical scenarios.
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