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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Due to a recent validation, the Missouri Army National Guard’s 205th Area Support Medical Company in Kansas City is now able to administer CPR training.
Every two years unit members must recertify for CPR. According to Sgt. 1st Class Dwayne Washington, readiness noncommissioned officer for the 205th ASMC, his troops would usually have to travel to Fort Leonard Wood, more than four hours away, to be trained and tested.
“CPR training is a perishable skill if you don’t use it all the time,” said Washington. “That’s why we do so much training in regards to it every year so that we stay up on that.”
Washington said that having two trainers on site in Kansas City now makes it logistically easier and quicker, as well as less expensive to have this training in northwest Missouri.
Washington and Staff Sgt. George Carr, unit supply sergeant, went through an instructor course at nearby Fort Leavenworth, Kan. in effort to become a validation site and teach the course locally.
“Usually we had to go to outside resources,” said Washington. “Now we have cost effectively saved the National Guard quite a bit of money in regards to this.”
Washington said they can teach up to 48 people over the course of a typical drill weekend. In February they were able to recertify 32 troops on their first attempt.
Unlike other units, Washington said that because they are a medical unit, the 205th ASMC requires everybody in the unit to be CPR certified.
“All 83 of our people have to have it,” said Washington. “Even if they are mechanics. It’s an advantage for them and for their Family. It’s a benefit besides in the military, but also for the civilian side of the house.”
In addition to helping out their own unit, the 205th ASMC can also recertify other medics with CPR from other units in the National Guard.
| Date Taken: | 02.09.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 02.13.2013 16:35 |
| Story ID: | 101938 |
| Location: | KANSAS CITY, MO, US |
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