FROT Training

Personnel assigned to Naval Health Clinic Corpus Christi (NHCCC) completed First Receiver Operations Training (FROT) on board Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, May 30.

The trainining is designed to educate U.S. Navy medical personnel on life-saving skills required to triage, initiate field treatment, decontaminate and save victims from Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), or hazardous materials exposure.

The bi-annual training course included classroom instruction, gear inventory, utility checks, equipment set-up, and timed teamwork drills.

For the practical application portion of the training, Brent Fenton, an instructor with DECON, LLC, had the students demonstrate the setting up and tearing down of a three-lane DECON shelter, and instructed them on the order of processing and treating different types of patients.

(U.S. Navy photos by Sean Dath)