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Excellent article for First Responders…

Want to take another FEMA incident command course? Sooner jump out of the moving car on the way to the class? I hear you. But what if I told you there was a homeland security course you would actually enjoy? What if it’s a hands-on course that may save your life, and the lives of those who depend on you?

And what if it’s a course that won’t cost you or your department a dime, because it’s a government program designed for the people who are actually responding? That’s right — it’s for the ones actually on the ground doing the work, before and after the smoke clears. DHS will even fly you there, house you, feed you, and drive you to school in the morning.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP), in Anniston, Alabama, has already trained thousands of our nation’s first responders for the unthinkable event of a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive attack.

In the age of terror, our level of sophistication has thankfully risen above “duck and cover,” back-yard bomb shelters and the sealed water barrels they used to store in school basements during the Cold War. After attending the week-long Weapons of Mass Destruction/Technical Emergency Response Training (WMD/TERT), and completing the Chemical Ordinance Biological and Radiological (COBRA) training, it’s clear the DHS is serious about first responder training.

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