WEBVTT 00:04.340 --> 00:06.562 well , water survival training . We get 00:06.562 --> 00:08.784 water survival training before we start 00:08.784 --> 00:11.750 flying because you can fly over water 00:11.750 --> 00:14.720 and find yourself in a situation where 00:14.720 --> 00:16.680 you need to be able to use all the 00:16.680 --> 00:18.800 equipment so you don't drown in the 00:18.800 --> 00:20.800 heavy equipment that we were in the 00:20.800 --> 00:22.911 airplane , How to get out of it , get 00:22.911 --> 00:25.580 into the life raft , gets the LP us 00:25.590 --> 00:28.080 going , life preserving units going and 00:28.090 --> 00:31.610 how to signal , keep your device is dry , 00:31.620 --> 00:33.530 use your radios et cetera . So we 00:33.530 --> 00:35.641 learned that initially pilot training 00:35.641 --> 00:37.641 and then there's an advanced course 00:37.641 --> 00:39.697 after when you finish pilot training 00:39.697 --> 00:42.270 and you go uh and you are assigned a 00:42.280 --> 00:44.500 primary uh M . D . S . Mission Design 00:44.500 --> 00:46.611 series aircraft . I was assigned to a 00:46.611 --> 00:48.722 fighter to the A . Tens and so I went 00:48.722 --> 00:50.889 to the fighter water survival advanced 00:50.889 --> 00:52.670 training . And when you do that 00:52.680 --> 00:56.190 training then it's specialized to what 00:56.190 --> 00:58.490 your aircraft's water survival 00:58.490 --> 01:00.490 equipment would be and what kind of 01:00.490 --> 01:02.546 situation you would find yourself in 01:02.620 --> 01:05.090 the water which is by yourself uh in a 01:05.090 --> 01:07.312 single seat airplane . Initial training 01:07.312 --> 01:09.423 for me was off the coast of florida . 01:09.423 --> 01:11.646 Um well they'll take us out , put us on 01:11.646 --> 01:13.701 a boat on the front of a boat with a 01:13.701 --> 01:15.757 parachute inflated . And it's pretty 01:15.757 --> 01:17.868 much Paris sailing up to about 300 ft 01:17.868 --> 01:19.868 and they cut you loose and you come 01:19.868 --> 01:21.979 down from their deploy your life raft 01:21.979 --> 01:24.146 and land in the middle of water all by 01:24.146 --> 01:27.000 yourself . Figure out how to um if 01:27.010 --> 01:30.120 you're inflate your life preserving 01:30.120 --> 01:32.290 unit , climb into your one man raft , 01:32.300 --> 01:34.356 we're gonna do that again here today 01:34.440 --> 01:37.310 and then how to bail it out , get the 01:37.320 --> 01:41.300 splash seal shields , an installation 01:41.300 --> 01:43.670 inflated and wrapped around you . And 01:43.680 --> 01:45.736 of course they've cut holes in it so 01:45.736 --> 01:49.570 you have to repair the holes and uh fix 01:49.570 --> 01:51.770 those so that it's a floating device . 01:51.770 --> 01:53.881 Once you've got all that going , then 01:53.881 --> 01:55.937 you signal for rescue , make a radio 01:55.937 --> 01:57.992 call and call for help and uh then a 01:57.992 --> 02:00.048 helicopter comes by and then they'll 02:00.048 --> 02:03.410 pick you up . Um And we're gonna do 02:03.410 --> 02:06.160 that with the penetrator um 02:07.540 --> 02:10.620 unit today on a cable . I'm actually 02:10.620 --> 02:12.700 gonna use a rope . So we're not we 02:12.700 --> 02:14.700 don't spend a lot of money on doing 02:14.700 --> 02:18.060 that every annual or biannual update on 02:18.060 --> 02:20.004 water survival training . So today 02:20.004 --> 02:22.116 we're gonna be doing that in a pool . 02:22.116 --> 02:24.770 So we'll have the one man raft . Um So 02:24.770 --> 02:26.770 we'll practice trying to climb into 02:26.770 --> 02:28.881 that with all your gear on , which is 02:28.881 --> 02:31.103 quite complicated . It's almost a rodeo 02:31.103 --> 02:33.048 event to get into the raft and get 02:33.048 --> 02:35.930 bailed out . We'll uh we'll practice 02:35.940 --> 02:39.200 being lifted out of the water with all 02:39.200 --> 02:41.450 of our gear on on that penetrator . 02:41.450 --> 02:45.200 They'll use a rope system cable on a 02:45.200 --> 02:47.311 pulley and the ceiling above the pool 02:47.311 --> 02:49.533 here so we can practice that and how to 02:49.533 --> 02:51.700 hang on and strap yourself in . So you 02:51.700 --> 02:53.700 don't fall out when the helicopters 02:53.700 --> 02:55.867 picking you up for real . So why is it 02:55.867 --> 02:58.650 important in Korea , it is a peninsula . 02:59.140 --> 03:01.440 So we fly over the water a lot . We use 03:01.440 --> 03:03.718 training areas that are over the water . 03:03.740 --> 03:07.510 We deploy um to different places around 03:07.510 --> 03:09.732 the theater and all the way back into a 03:09.732 --> 03:13.530 back to Alaska in kona to compel 03:13.530 --> 03:16.280 us to do training . Those are long 03:16.410 --> 03:18.750 sorties in a single seat airplane . And 03:19.240 --> 03:23.120 so You know long flights of 7-10 03:23.120 --> 03:25.790 or 11 hours each . And during those 03:25.960 --> 03:28.040 times , especially the F16 with a 03:28.040 --> 03:30.460 single engine um if anything goes wrong 03:30.460 --> 03:32.349 and the airplane can't make it to 03:32.349 --> 03:34.238 divert base , then you have to be 03:34.238 --> 03:36.460 prepared to survive in the water . This 03:36.460 --> 03:38.516 training and the level of competency 03:38.730 --> 03:41.320 that we get uh with the training , we 03:41.320 --> 03:43.930 feel comfortable about being able to 03:43.940 --> 03:45.996 take care of ourselves in that water 03:45.996 --> 03:48.051 environment until some other sort of 03:48.051 --> 03:50.107 rescue could , could come along . So 03:50.107 --> 03:52.273 that reduces all that anxiety of being 03:52.273 --> 03:54.384 in this little capsule in an airplane 03:54.384 --> 03:56.440 over the middle of the ocean , hours 03:56.440 --> 03:58.607 away , You know from the closest place 03:58.607 --> 04:00.910 to actually land . So depending on how 04:00.910 --> 04:03.021 cold the water is , you may only have 04:03.021 --> 04:06.830 about five or 10 minutes or less of 04:06.830 --> 04:09.052 actual useful body function when we get 04:09.052 --> 04:11.108 into that cold war . If we're flying 04:11.108 --> 04:13.219 over the cold water and you end up in 04:13.219 --> 04:13.120 that situation . So it's important to 04:13.120 --> 04:15.280 be able to get out of that . Get into 04:15.280 --> 04:17.440 the raft , put a layer of air 04:17.440 --> 04:20.040 insulation between the water and your 04:20.040 --> 04:22.140 body . And so you have to make sure 04:22.140 --> 04:24.251 that that raft is well inflated . And 04:24.251 --> 04:26.307 if it's damaged to be able to repair 04:26.307 --> 04:28.473 the holes in that and then um and then 04:28.473 --> 04:30.584 also be able to get the splash shield 04:30.584 --> 04:32.640 up and around you pretty much cocoon 04:32.640 --> 04:31.960 yourself in there and use your body 04:31.960 --> 04:34.160 heat to kind of heat up that that 04:34.170 --> 04:37.870 insulated area and uh and survive until 04:37.880 --> 04:40.490 um you can get a signal for help and 04:40.490 --> 04:43.140 help can come and pull you out . So we 04:43.140 --> 04:45.300 trained for that as well . Getting , 04:45.310 --> 04:47.366 getting in the pool and playing with 04:47.366 --> 04:48.910 military equipment is way more fun than .