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Show CIVIL DEFENSE Standard Training Is Needed By Civil Defense Volunteers j By Walter A. Shead ! Clbit is the fourth in a series of five articles on the civilian defense program.) n UTHORITY in the line of command for the tremendous civil " defense army needed in case of full scale war stems from the President, through Civil Defense Administrator Millard Caldwell, to the 48 state civil defense directors and down the line to the appointed officers in cities, towns and counties throughout the nation. National defense against atomic, biological and chemical warfare rests upon thorough training to start In a civil defense staff college to ba established for top civil defense de-fense planners and administrators. The college will serve as a source of all latest Information. Regional technical training centers are also planned where this information will be disseminated in the civil defense training programs in the states and local communities. The technical centers will bt staffed by thoroughly thorough-ly trained men and women In all phases of the work and will provide means for standardization of the technical and special training necessary. Standardization is a !prlme factor for successful mutual aid and mobile support which require re-quire a force of uniformly trained civil defense workers, i Graduates of the federal technical tech-nical training centers will train other civil defense workers and trainers within the states, who, in iturn, will train the local volunteers. Under the program, two kinds of training will be . provided general and specialized. General training will consist of instruction in basic subjects to include fundamental principles of organization and operation, op-eration, basic first aid and improvised im-provised rescue operations. The American Red Cross, officials offi-cials of the public health service and other organizations concerned with health services will conduct certain phases of specialized training train-ing such as first aid and nurses' aid training. Many medical officers of the military services, public health services, the veterans administration ad-ministration and other organizations organiza-tions have taken specialized courses in defenses against atomic warfare and these will be asked to assist In the training program. Already, In the atomic warfare field, 148 physicians from 38 states have taken courses given by the atomic enegry commission in cooperation co-operation with the national security resources board. Similar courses for nurses have been started. Other ; courses either federal, state or lo-'cal, lo-'cal, will be available for dentists, veterinarians and other professional profession-al and technical people working In health services. State health officials offi-cials have taken courses in radio logical monitoring which included many aspects of the civil defense program. Similar training courses will be available for biological warfare against humans and animals, against chemical warfare and against biological warfare against crops. Courses In these subjects will have three prime aspects detection, de-tection, treatment of casualties, and methods of decontamination. Training will be available for nurses aids and home nurses, radiological ra-diological monitors, auxiliary sanitary sani-tary personnel and auxiliary laboratory lab-oratory workers. For large segments of the general gen-eral public, the major type of training train-ing will be in the category of first aid what to do first in any of the fields of civil defense. The goal is 20,000,000 trained first-aiders in a 22-hour course which will also in-elude in-elude training in special weapons defense and in procedures for treating treat-ing minor illnesses in time of emergency emer-gency when physicians will be overburdened over-burdened with casualties. Every state will operate undei a uniform system of organization, equipment and procedure. Establishment Estab-lishment of control stations in strategic areas, of first aid stations and the implementation of all necessary nec-essary ambulances, hospitalization, fire fighting equipment and a score I of other defense mechanisms will be taught. It is estimated that approximately ap-proximately 35 per cent of surviving sur-viving casualties in an atomic bomb burst would require transportation trans-portation by litter to first-aid stations, sta-tions, hence the importance of first aid work. As an example, if there were 40,000 injured survivors, about 13,000 probably would have to be carried by litters. Another 27,000 could walk, or would be taken to first aid stations by other means. So the most important function is in first aid training, since even fire- fighters, rescue teams, police, en- ( gineering and other personnel, first to contact the injured, would be called upon for first aid to casual- ' ties. I So every Individual should watch I for announcement of establishment ' of regional training centers. |
