Well , here in the cold doing operation
se burn deep freeze . We're testing
limitations of our se equipment along
with doing tactical training , the
threats ever changing . We have to
learn to adapt and overcome . We've
been used to testing our equipment in
the desert in heat . It's time to make
sure it can operate in cold , pushing
those limitations and driving the
mission forward if you don't mind the
cold , it's a great time . The whole
point of operation Sebring deep freeze
is to put our skills and
equipment to the test in an
extreme weather environment . And the
extreme weather environment that we
face every year is cold weather and
cold weather brings along with a slew
of problems and what we can do to , to
combat those things or keep our
equipment operational as long as we can .
The students were given intel that they
need to go to the site , clear out the
area , make sure there weren't any ,
any enemy combatants there and then go
in and attempt to get samples or
to also try and identify the products
that were being made inside . So the
students tactically came down the road
to survey the situation . And then they
moved in towards the building ,
determined which entrance they wanted
to go into . Then they proceeded to get
inside as fast as possible . Found the
room that had the lab that they were
looking for . They decided where they
wanted to sample Deon as best they
could at the time and then tried to get
out . The cold weather definitely adds
to a difficulty in both the getting to
the site that they need to and uh
sample that as well as the actual
sampling itself . Even our equipment ,
the battery life on all of our
equipment really shortens down when we
get cold . Something that you have to
think about and not just your equipment
but also your uh your health . We
haven't really tested our cold weather
equipment in 30 years . Basically .
Since the end of the Cold War , we
don't have those uh tactics and
techniques and procedures built up
anymore for the current equipment . We
have it for legacy equipment , but we
don't use that anymore . So we need to
do the hard work of developing those TT
PS for our current equipment . We're
having a team come out to respond to
our improvised device that was expected
chemical war for agent . We're looking
to see if we can find confirmation of a
chlorine product or , or maybe some
precursors to a chlorine product .
We're trying to develop some analytical
thinking . We're trying to hone and
sharpen those , those response skills
and the , and the recy skills
evaluating the facility . And then once
they've done some monitoring outside
the facility , they're going to check
inside the facility and , and try to
identify as much as they can about what
was going on inside . We're running
them through a bio scenario . They're
coming across any type of bio agents .
They're getting into their chem gear
and they're taking samples and trying
to identify what they're coming across ,
then they can push the information up
to higher headquarters . We have them
room clearing procedures . They went
through a little bit of training with
our security forces members and got a
little bit of shoot movement ,
communicate room clearing procedures
from them to help them accomplish their
missions that they're being tasked with
today . The way seaburn hazard reacts
in heat is very different than how it
will react in cold . So it's important
that we understand how that's going to
react and what equipment we'll need to
push that mission forward .