Provide training/prompting as necessary to meet
Q5.
What person is responsible to complete a
safety walk-through and pre-event check
t h e t r a i n i n g o b j e c t ive d u r i n g exe r c i s e s
prior to a drill?
conducted in the training mode.
Normally provide prompting only as required to
1.
Trainers
prevent disruption of the event timeline or for
2.
Evaluators
safety reasons during exercises conducted in the
3.
Safety observers
evaluation mode.
Provide immediate feedback to individual watch
4.
All team members
standers upon completion of the training event.
Provide a post-exercise debrief on observations
OBJECTIVES AND METHODS OF
noted, lessons learned, and recommendations
DAMAGE CONTROL TRAINING
for corrective actions.
Learning Objectives: Recall the objectives and
REVIEW QUESTIONS
methods of damage control training.
The goal of damage control training is to organize
Q1.
What person is responsible for the damage
individual and team training to ensure shipboard
readiness. An effective training program is based on a
control training teams?
logical continuum of training, starting with basic
1.
Team leader
knowledge/actions and progressing to more complex
2.
Damage controlman chief
evolutions. This type of training includes classroom
lectures and intensive casualty drill scenarios.
3.
OBJECTIVES OF DAMAGE CONTROL
4.
Damage control assistant
TRAINING
Q2.
One of the responsibilities of the training
Consistent training produces an optimal level of
team is to assess the readiness and
readiness that prepares members of repair party teams
effectiveness of watchteam performance of
to react more efficiently and effectively to actual
watchstation specific tasks.
casualties. The general objectives of damage control
training include the following:
1.
True
Writing and conducting various damage control
2.
False
exercises
Q3.
What person is designated chairman of the
D eve l o p i n g t h e a b i l i t y t o m e e t t r a i n i n g
planning board for training and is also the
objectives as briefed
team leader for the damage control training
Developing the ability to assess repair parties in
team (DCTT)?
all DC exercises
1.
Commanding officer
2.
Executive officer
material condition ZEBRA
3.
Operations officer
Developing the ability to recognize unsafe
4.
Engineer officer
actions and conditions
Developing the ability to recognize material
Q4.
What person serves as overall manager of the
training event briefs, performance, and
deficiencies in damage control equipment and
damage control fittings
debriefs?
Developing the ability to brief, execute, debrief,
1.
DCTT team leader
and critique damage control exercises
2.
DCTT team coordinator
Fa m i l i a r i z a t i o n w i t h b a s i c d a m a g e c o n t r o l
3.
Evaluator
doctrine as directed in the following: Naval Ships
Technical Manual (NSTM), chapter 555; NSTM,
4.
Safety Observer
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