SOTECH 2009 Volume: 7 Issue: 8 (October)
Are you with a service-disabled veteran-owned small business or a veteran-owned small business? If so, you should look into the 3rd Annual SDVOSB & VOSB Conference hosted by 6th Contracting and USSOCOM October 28 and 29. The event is touted as an opportunity to meet contracting officials, network with government officials and prime contractors, as well as develop mentor protégé opportunities.
The USSOCOM command surgeon has recently released a request for information for part of a comprehensive tool kit of care for its warriors and for its human performance, restoration and pre-habilitation training. The program seeks to organize, establish curriculum and implement a comprehensive, balanced course of instruction that ensures delivery of human performance theory, strength and conditioning competencies, pre-habilitative techniques, regeneration techniques, dietary planning and testing strategy, pillar strength, movement preparation, acceleration, plyometrics, multi-directional speed, absolute speed, energy system development, whole body vibration, Olympic lifting, and program development to qualify SOF operators as military mentors and functional training instructors.
Much like preparing equipment for specific missions and performing predictive analysis of those items to ensure critical failures happen in depot and not on a mission, it seems that much of this instruction will be focused on taking those same monitoring techniques and preventive health methods and applying them to the SOF occupational demand analysis process.
Preparing the warrior in a fashion similar to professional athletes has proved to pay dividends. The body can be conditioned for specific stress and motion. Long-distance runners, for example, prepare their bodies for not only the cardiovascular endurance required but also for the shock and impact of the run itself. Conditioning the SOF operator for specific motions and stresses can help reduce the damage that could occur with little pre-conditioning.
As always, please feel free to contact me directly with any comments or suggestions you want to share.
Best wishes.
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