DC Training Documented at Submarine Training Center Pacific
Navy NewsStand
Story Number: NNS060409-04
Release Date: 4/9/2006 6:45:00 PM
By Photographer 1st Class (SW/AW) James Foehl, Commander, Navy Region Hawaii Public Affairs
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) -- Sailors from Naval Submarine Training Center Pacific (NSTCP) hosted a video crew during the first week in April from Film House, Inc., a Nashville-based Department of Defense contractor for the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS).
The six-person video production crew spent two days filming at the NSTCP wet trainer and firefighting trainer facilities on Ford Island to document damage control training for a video which will be used to spotlight the damage controlman rating.
“We are here because of the importance of the damage controlman’s mission,” said Brian Kumia, AFRTS military advisor, “to show that they perform a mission that’s important to the survivability of ships [and] submarines.”
NSTCP provides damage control training for all submarines stationed at Pearl Harbor and offers six different damage control related courses, which are taught by running various scenarios through the wet trainer and firefighting trainers.
“Our job is to teach the fleet how to save their ship and give [Sailors] the best training they can possibly get,” said Boiler Technician 1st Class Troy Potter, damage control instructor for NTSCP.
According to Kumia, the video production is expected to be completed by this fall and will be aired intermittently worldwide over the next five years on the Armed Forces Network.
Through quality radio and television broadcasting, AFRTS communicates Department of Defense policies, priorities, programs, goals and initiatives.
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