Navy Jobs: Aviation Rescue Swimmer School

what's going on everyone I'm az1 and Welcome to our first segment of Navy [Music] jobs today we're at Naval Air Station Pensacola and we will be taking a few days in the life of rescue swimmer instructors and the candidates I will be one of the candidates I will be going through a few of the evolutions doing everything from the rigorous PT schedule um a few water Evolutions learning how to swim the Buddy toe we're doing a lot of stuff man so please stay tuned and we're going to have a good [Music] time air crew are you fit to train crew [Music] what is going on Good People we're back again here in sunny Pensacola like I said we're going to bring you a lot of good content a lot of action what goes down and rescue frommer school as you can see already doing some rigorous PT I had to drop out already I'm not going to lie to you I'm going catch my breath and jump back in though y'all stay tuned we got a lot more coming right now we are running a morning PT session uh we just finished a warm up uh it's important that we do our warmup our Dynamic warmup to get the those muscles going and ready for this uh PT session we're about to uh indulge in right now they're doing the first steps of that PT session jumping jacks it'll go into push-ups planks stuff that'll really help them out with the PST physical standard test [Music] scores tired already okay so I after finishing up with some early morning PT this is where it gets fun we heading to the schoolhouse to where the pool is and this is where we get down to the nitty-gritty here we are gearing up warming up I got my fanss on putting on my mask and my snorkel and here's where we lock arms and we do a few laps around the pool you know to get warmed up from being from Florida I know I said I could swim it's a whole different type of swimming now respect these ladies and gentlemen for what they do when I first jumped in the First underwater all the way down you can take one breath I didn't even use the breath the first time down but I didn't know when you got down there you can't hang on to the side you got to keep Treading Water I was windy if you ever think you can swim come to rescue swimmer School you you will be tested you will be tested it's the first evolution in the water I'm tired and they still going respect to rescue swimming instructors and respect to the candidates this is not for the weak hard this is hey you need to really really be in shape for this hey but I did my thing though don't get me wrong I hung in there a little bit okay so this is one of my favorite Evolution this is clearing your mask so pretty much you go all the way down to the bottom of the pool take your mask off then come all the way back up to the top let the instructor know that you're good and now you have to go back down and retreat your mask but before you come back up you have to secure the mask on your face and clear all the water out of the Mask okay now as you can see I found my mask pretty good I was actually going to grab anybody's mask I didn't care I just want to get back up but once you clear all the water out of your mask you come back up to the top show the instructor that you're good to go [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we just did what they call the beach run rescue some school let me tell you something running on treadmill easy running running on pavement easy playing the pick up game of basketball easy running in this sand I don't think I don't think my Cal muscles was ready for all this look this is tough you got to push through so I'm going to push through and head back so after the beach workout we grab our things and we head back quick sip of water and guess what we're doing it all over again the push-up the sit up the pull-ups lunges we doing it all over again cuz we got to build up that endurance you got to be ready for the real thing now that we finish the PT outside it's time to head inside in the pool let's get some swimming in swimming in PT shorts and just a shirt you know it's cool you know you're a little free but now I got all of the gear on I got the fins I got the harness I got the helmet I got the snorkel man it's it's different it's an adjustment it takes some getting used to okay so for this particular Evolution it was swimming up under the water without coming up taking a breath and it was cool when I did it with without the gear one but now it's different cuz I was having the hardest time trying not to get water coming through the top of the snorkel it was tough man this just a warm [Music] up okay and here we have the Buddy toe I I was a little nervous about this Evolution because I was barely getting used to swimming with the gear on but it's pretty much a technique used if you have an incapacitated shipmate you have to get them back to safety buddy Towing is quite difficult um especially with all the gear on especially if your C States really high buddy Towing is very difficult it's very physically exhausting and if you have to do that in a real scenario and Buddy tow someone to safety we have to ensure that you can do it for a very extended period of time that's why we have an 800 m body to very long ways to tow a body through the water whether conscious or unconscious and it's one of those things we have students be tested on it because we want them to understand they have the strength and confidence and capability to do the most physically demanding thing in [Music] water parachute canp Escape lab is so students can understand the dangers of a parachute and how to overcome them so the biggest thing that we do is the stress inoculation and then also allowing them to do the proper techniques of hand overand to get underneath the parachute and then also hand overand to get out of the parachute in case it collapses on top of them while they're affecting a rescue so direct deployment uh if we're not able to jump from the helicopter we'll do what's called direct deployment and basically put the swimmer down into the water have the uh rescue devices on them already they get down down the water right next to the Survivor quick hook up takes less than a minute and then get him back in the helicopter and that's for if we have dangerous situations okay so right here I'm preparing for the jump from the tower he's showing me the technique of jumping out the tower and securing my mask so I don't hurt myself and things of that nature after learning the basics it's time to apply that to the real thing we're headed up to the tower up here in the tower now getting strapped in simulating me being in a helicopter so the purpose of this evolution is pretty much getting yourself used to being in the water jumping from Heights the gear and everything you have on and just getting yourself ready for the real thing [Music] [Music] what's going on Good People finally I made it to the last day of training and here I am standing hey RSS probably one of the toughest things I've done in my 20 year career being in the Navy hey when I tell you I've been tested lot of swimming lot of running push-ups situps pull-ups I have a new found respect for working out and taking care of your body not going to lie much much respect to the candidates and much much respect to the instructors when I tell you these guys are in super tiptop shape super professional and they really really know their jobs all the way down to the te I had a great time great experience and I'm not going to lie um I learned a lot about myself you you have to push through sometime because this this this school is not for the week but hey I enjoyed myself got a great great workout and hey if you want to try it out do it this is A1 this is our first segment of Navy jobs please tune in for more we might come to your rate [Music] over