Photos by Senior Airman Damon Kasberg 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
Senior Airman Blake A. Sabolo, 86th Security Forces Squadron member, counts in cadence while performing flutter kicks during a fly-away security team course Oct. 9 on Pulaski Barracks. The five-day training course provides security forces Airmen with the opportunity to learn about individual protection measures and airfield surveying. Trainees also practice mission preparation, where they go through all the steps of setting up a mission prior to execution.
Fly-away security teams are designed to fly into unsecured or nontraditional flightlines and ensure security for the aircraft and its crew members.
The five-day course teaches security forces Airmen a variety of skills including verbal judo, airfield surveying, cross-culture awareness and combative techniques. The trainees were also taught weapons retention and take away, where they learned how to properly disarm someone who has a knife, baton, pistol or AK-47 assault rifle. Airmen from throughout U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa come to Pulaski Barracks to prepare themselves for hostile situations no matter where they go.
Staff Sgt. Mark M. Karas, 435th Security Forces Squadron F.A.S.T. instructor, leads a physical-training session. Many instructors for F.A.S.T. have completed the Phoenix Raven program, which specializes in aircraft security under hostile conditions.
Staff Sgt. Joshua R. Marugg, 435th Security Forces Squadron F.A.S.T. NCOIC, prepares training weapons for instructing the weapons retention and take-away portion of a F.A.S.T. course. During the course, Airmen have the opportunity to learn how to deal with a variety of weapons hostiles may be equipped with.
Staff Sgt. Mark M. Karas, 435th Security Forces Squadron fly-away security team instructor, talks to students in the F.A.S.T. course Oct. 9 on Pulaski Barracks. Karas stressed the importance of muscle memory and training the way you fight.
Airmen from the F.A.S.T. course practice disarming each other. During the training, students learned how to disarm combatants equipped with an AK-47 assault rifle because it’s the most common weapon system in the world.
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