Posted by Jill Buck at 12:00 am on Dec 07, 2006 3 Comments
Lessons of Pearl Harbor Applied to CRP
In the early 90’s, I was a legal officer in the Navy, stationed
at the Fleet Training Center, San Diego. When there was a shortage
of criminals, malcontents and sailors who couldn’t keep their noses
clean, I had spare time. During that spare time, I qualified as a
high risk instructor to teach Shipboard Damage Control – a class
that taught sailors how to survive and keep their ship afloat if it
got hit, started flooding and caught on fire. During the second day
of the class, we took sailors into the “wet trainer”, a 2-story
building with four compartments where we could simulate fire,
floods, evacuations through flooded compartments, etc. It was a
dangerous class. In fact, one day when I was the lead instructor,
one of our sailors nearly drowned, but another instructor and I
pulled him to safety, and training resumed.
One of the most important
lessons of the course had nothing to do with what action to take
once the ship is flooding. Instead, it was a lesson… Read More