445th MXS conducts annual confined space training

After donning his own respirator, U.S. Air Force Senior Airman David Asterino, 445th Maintenance Squadron maintenance aircraft fuels systems journeyman, prepares another respirator to be put on an entrant who was found unresponsive in a C-17 underfloor maintenance tunnel during confined space training at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Aug. 6, 2023. Asterino was the attendant who entered the confined space to help remove the unresponsive entrant. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Patrick O’Reilly)

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445th MXS conducts annual confined space training

The underfloor maintenance tunnel on a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft is show during the 445th Maintenance Squadron’s confined space training at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Aug. 6, 2023. During the training, a training dummy was used to simulate an unresponsive person in the tunnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Patrick O’Reilly)

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445th MXS conducts annual confined space training

Tech. Sgt. Lucas Pickens, left, 445th Maintenance Squadron aircraft fuels systems craftsman, helps Senior Airman David Asterino, 445th MXS maintenance aircraft fuels systems journeyman, remove a training dummy used to simulate an unresponsive person from the aircraft underfloor maintenance tunnel of a C-17 Globemaster III during confined space training at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Aug. 6, 2023. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Patrick O’Reilly)

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445th MXS conducts annual confined space training

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman David Asterino, 445th Maintenance Squadron aircraft fuels systems journeyman, performs CPR on a training dummy used to simulate an entrant who was found unresponsive in a C-17 underfloor maintenance tunnel during confined spaces training at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Aug. 6, 2023. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Patrick O’Reilly)

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445th MXS conducts annual confined space training

Published Sept. 7, 2023
445th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio --

Airmen from the 445th Maintenance Squadron participated in and were evaluated for their annual organizational rescue team hands-on training exercise Aug. 6. The training event was a confined space rescue scenario using the underbelly of a 445th Airlift Wing C-17 Globemaster III in Hangar 4007. The scenario began when an individual (a training dummy was used) entered the aircraft underfloor maintenance tunnel and was found unresponsive and had to be extracted from that tight space. Tech. Sgt. Brian Phillips, 445th MXS maintenance aircraft fuels systems entry supervisor, said the training is important because if someone ever passes out in the tank, they know how to get them out safely and quickly and can start emergency actions such as CPR or automated external defibrillator until after the fire department arrives.