- Firefighters from several NATO countries gathered at Ramstein Air Base in Germany this month to practice putting out a fire on a fighter jet.
- The training used Ramstein's new F-15 Mobile Aircraft Fire Training asset, a mock-up aircraft that's been in development since 2018.
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RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany - The 435th Construction and Training Squadron hosted the NATO Firefighter Fundamentals Course March 9-13 to train for aircraft mishaps and pilot extraction scenarios.
Twenty-two NATO firefighters from Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and the Czech Republic were the first to train on Ramstein's new F-15 Mobile Aircraft Fire Training asset, a mock-up aircraft in development since 2018. This capability allowed them to share new knowledge with their respective countries' military forces.
"We have students from all of the world coming to train," said Staff Sgt. Robert Wellborn, 435th CTS fire rescue and contingency training instructor. "A lot of them have these aircraft at their base. Some might not, but they get the opportunity to train before they (are reassigned) to another base with the aircraft."