Edwards AFB Training ATV Instructors

Filed in archive News on October 18, 2007

The 95th Security Forces Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base in California recently received Instructor Certification for military (Air Force) ATVs.

They are training instructors so they can train as many personnel as they can to safety use ATVs to patrol Edwards Air Force Base. It's a huge base, and right now they are using hummers to do most of the patrolling.

The ATV Instructor Certification begins with a normal ATV Safety course, similar to the ones you and I have taken. But after that, they take 40 more hours of specialty training.

Major Heffington of the 95th SFS at Edwards said.

First, they are intended to validate the integrity of Edwards' perimeter fence and the condition of our perimeter signs, he said. Second, they are intended to discourage individuals with or without base affiliation from conducting activities on unauthorized areas of the base or breaching the perimeter. Third, the patrols will help security forces personnel gain familiarity with a vehicle they may be required to use in a deployed environment.

They've already started using ATVs to patrol the area, but eventually they want to train everyone so that anyone can quickly react to any situation at any area of the base.