Two-day class for police

Officer training sessions offer extreme lessons Hamburg — Hamburg Police Department hosted a Tactical Combat Casualty Care class on Feb. 3 and 4 instructed by T2 Trauma Training of Virginia Beach, Va. The two-day event was attended by police and sheriff’s officers from Sussex, Morris and Passaic counties. Locally, two newly hired Hamburg officers attended the training. That will put them on a par with all the other Hamburg officers, who’ve already had the training, said Hamburg’s Chief Jan Wright. Members of the Sussex County Sheriff’s office also attended. The fee for the two-day training session is about $700 per person. Hamburg’s officers were covered for the course through the borough’s police budget. The training firm provided medical training to the officers, using its Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC), from the guidelines of the Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) Military 7th Edition. The program offers instruction in three different situations: care under hostile fire; tactical field care and combat casualty evacuation care. Students are taught the most expedient way to save victims. Fred Kolberg, co-owner of training company was on site in Hamburg to give the training. He is a retired Navy SEAL 18D Medic with 21 years of service. Kolberg has been training forces in combat trauma skills since his retirement in 2003, drawing from his own medical training, expertise and extensive experience from his years with the SEAL teams and serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition to combat medicine, Kolberg excelled as a vertical assault master, expert marksman, helicopter rope suspension training master, tactical field operator, in weapons training, surveillance detection, counter surveillance and other skills. The program takes each student through a total immersive training experience. Julie Kolberg, co-owner and certified moulage (mold-making) specialist, adds realism to the training program with her artistic moulage, creating realistic wounds. She also handles the simulated pyrotechnics in the final training exercises. For more information contact Fred Kolberg at www.t2training.com.