Competences: the STCAF has to:

• Develop and disclose techniques in survival areas; nuclear, radiological, biological and chemical defense (NRBCD); recognition and deactivation of explosive devices (RDED), conventional or improvised, biological, chemical and radiological explosive devices, and in other areas embodied in the protection force capacity;

• Provide operational training in the survival areas, NRBC defense, RDED and in other areas embodied in the protection force capacity;

• Provide and organize operational courses of Individual Common Core Skills (ICCS);

• Organize, execute and control training programs, qualification and proficiency maintenance, for an increase of promptness, effectiveness and efficiency of human and material resources;

• Provide technical training to the teachers involved in the courses and exercises fulfilled by the STCAF;

• Plan, direct, control and execute the readiness, maintenance and performance of operational functions of survival, NRBC defense, RDED and in other areas embodied in the protection force capacity, superiorly determined;

• Administer human and material resources of the Survival Training Center of the Air Force (STCAF);

• Solicit and coordinate the necessary human and material resources to guarantee the accomplishment of STCAF’s mission;

• Assure the promptness and operational capacity of the necessary systems and equipments to guarantee the accomplishment of STCAF’s mission;

• Make studies and publications on techniques, systems and equipments in the area of survival, NRBQ defense, RIEE and in other areas embodied in the protection force capacity; 

• Practice and test equipments in the area of survival, NRBQ defense, RIEE and in other areas embodied in the protection force capacity and emit its respective technical report;

• Contribute to a definition of concepts of operation and usage in the areas of survival, NRBC defense, RDED and in other areas embodied in the protection force capacity;

• Make necessary technical inspections in the area of survival, NRBQ defense, RDED and in other areas embodied in the protection force capacity;

• Make necessary tactical evaluations on survival, NRBC defense, RDED and in other areas embodied in the protection force capacity; 

• Coordinate and direct activity programs to attain specific goals determined by the Air Commander; 

• Plan and solicit logistic and financial support for the mission of the STCAF;

• Plan and propose the attendance of external courses for a better and more specific knowledge of the trainers;

• Propose and make programs for qualification maintenance of the trainers and trainees of the STCAF.

Organic structure

• command

• secretariat

• uniformization and evaluation office (UAO)

• squadron of survival, evasion, resistance and extraction (SSERE)

• squadron of nuclear, radiologic, biological and chemical defense (SNRBCD)

• squadron of recognition and deactivation of explosive devices (SRDED)

• squadron of Individual Common Core Skills (SICCS)

• squadron of support (SS)

06 of February of 2014

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