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APPENDIX E

HDO POI SUMMARY

BASIC SKILLS TRAINING COURSE

ADVANCED SKILLS TRAINING COURSE

Instructor Training Course

Scope: Designed to train cadre personnel in basic instructional techniques.

Leadership and Operations Course

Scope: Designed to teach mission planning, long-term organizational planning, and deliberate decision-making processes.

Day
1
Lesson Titles

Introduction and Organization of the Staff
Duties and Responsibilities of Company Staff
Training Management

 2  Staff Functions
 3  Troop Leading Procedures
 4  Staff Planning Process
 5  Staff CPX
 6  Staff CPX
 7  Staff Outbrief/AAR

Figure E-1. Sample POI summaries for HDO advanced skills training courses.

Comat Life Savers (CLS) Course

Scope: Designed to train company medics preventive medical techniques, including field sanitation, basic first aid, and emergency medical techniques to allow medics to stabilize patients and sustain them until soldiers can reach a medical facility.

Basic Tasks:

Day
1 Lesson Titles

Introduction
Disease Prevention
Clear the Airway
Clear an Object From the Throat of a Casualty
Perform Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation

 2  Put on a Field Pressure Dressing
Put on a Tourniquet
Apply a dressing to an open chest wound
Apply a dressing to an open abdominal wound
Apply a Dressing to an open head wound

 3 Review of dressings (Hands On)
Prevent shock
Immobilize a suspected spinal injury

 4  Give first aid for burns
Recognize and give first aid for heat injuries
Transport a casualty using a two-man carry
     or an improvised Ltter
Transport a Casualty using a one-man carry

 5  Written test
Hands-on test

 6  Retrain
Retest

Advanced Tasks:

 7  Overview
Measure and monitor a casualty's pulse
Measure and monitor a casualty's respiration
Initiate an intravenous infusion to treat hypovolemic shock

 8  Insert an oropharyngeal airway in an unconscious casualty
Administer first aid to a chemical agent casualty
Identify and treat cold injuries
Manage a casualty with battle fatigue
Administer aspirin and antihistamines
Transport a casualty using a military vehicle
Evaluate a casualty

 9  Final Written examination
Final Hands-On Examination
Retrain

 10  Written Retest
Hands-On Retest

Figure E-1. Sample POI summaries for HDO advanced skills training courses (continued).

Demining Course

Scope: Designed to teach techniques of manually detecting, marking, recording, and destroying minefields.

Day
1 Lesson Titles Introduction to Demining
Identification of threat mines and booby traps
Identification of likely areas containing mines
Detection of mines (likely areas)
Practice Exercise (PE) of day 1 training

 2  Actions upon detection or contact with mines
Reaction to detection of mines
Identify types of mines
Locate mines by visual means
Locate mines by probing
Mark located mines
PE of day 2 training

 3  Introduction to mine detectors
Assemble and use mine detectors
Maintain Mine detectors and mine detection equipment
locate mines using mine detectors
PE of day 3 training

 4  Mark, Record, and report minefields
Direct a demining team
PE of day 4 training
PE of day 1 through day 4

 5  Demolitions Safety
Demolitions equipment
Transporting demolitions
Field storage Procedures
Determine Safe distance
UXO safety precautions
PE of day 5 training

 6  Munitions reconnaissance
Introduction to UXO munitions
Projectiles
Rockets
Guided missiles
Grenades
Dropped munitions
Booby traps
PE of day 6 training

 7  Color codes and markings
Fuzes (UXOs)
Booby traps
PE of day 5 through day 7

 8  Construct a nonelectric initiation system
Construct an electric initiation system
PE of day 8 training

 9  Prime explosives nonelectric
Prime explosives electric
Prime explosive with Det Cord
PE of day 9 training

 10  Charge placement
Improvised destruction of mines
PE of day 8 through day 10

 11-15  Demining FTX (UXO destruction PE)

Figure E-1. Sample POI summaries for HDO advanced skills training courses (continued).

Communications Course

Scope: Designed to teach radio telephone procedures, equipment installation, operation and maintenance, antenna theory, and repeater systems.

Day
1 Lesson Titles Introduction
Motorola radio
Radio procedures
Repeater site surveys

 2  Repeater systems
Installation Procedures
Maintenance of Repeaters

 3  Maintenance of repeaters (Continued)

 4  Repeater system FTX (Hands-on)

 5  Written test
Hands-On Test
Retrain/Retest

Figure E-1. Sample POI summaries for HDO advanced skills training courses (continued).

Mine Awareness Program

Scope: Designed to teach the techniques of developing themes to promote mine awareness and demining activities throughout the HN through broadcast media (radio, newspapers, leaflets, loudspeaker operations, television). The mine awareness POI can be subcategorized as follows:

Basic Mine Awareness 30 hours
 Introduction 1
 Do Not Touch 2
 Mine Recognition (Characteristics) 2
 Buried Land Mines 2
 Surface Land Mines 2
 Mine Initiation (Mine Sensitivity) 2
 Fuzes 2
 Booby Traps 2
 Land Mine Injuries 2
 Fate, Magic, Karma 2
 Traveling Procedures in an Unknown Area 2
 Areas Likely To Be Mined 2
 Mine Warning Clues 2
 Mine Warning Signs (Marking) 2
 Leaving a Mined Area or Field 2
 Examination 1 1

Campaign Development

30 hours
 Community Awareness Mission 1
 Community Awareness Objective 1
 Community Awareness Mission Analysis 1
 Community Awareness Campaign Objectives 1
 Analyze Potential Target Audiences 2
 Select Target Audiences 4
 Analyze Target Audiences 4
 Develop Products and Activities 2
 Develop Activities 2
 Develop Community Awareness Series 2
 Develop Community Awareness Programs 2
 Develop Community Awareness Campaign 2
 Execute Community Awareness Campaign 2
 Modify and Monitor Community Awareness Campaign 2
 Examination 2 2

Product Development Process

30 hours
 Analyze Community Awareness Mission 1
 Derive Community Awareness Mission 1
 Collect Information 1
 Conduct Target Audience Analysis 4
 Select Themes and Symbols 2
 Select Media 4
 Develop Product Prototypes
     and Proposed Actions
4
 Pretest Products and Simulate Actions 2
 Obtain Final Program Approval 1
 Prepare Products 2
 Disseminate Products 2
 Assess Impact 2
 Modify Programs as Required 1
 Examination 3 3
Product Development Center 20 hours
 Plans and Programs Section 2
 Target Audience Analysis Section 2
 Product Development Section 2
 Testing and Evaluation Section 2
 Product Dissemination Section 2
 Group Project 10
Product Development 30 hours
Product Dissemination 30 hours
 Assess Impact 10
 Modify Products 10
 Final Examination 5
 After-Action Review 5

Figure E-1. Sample POI summaries for HDO advanced skills training courses (continued).