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Keith Griffin- Owner, Instructor
 
Keith Griffin is a 13 year Navy veteran currently working as a Combat Search and Rescue Medical Technician. He has instructed numerous medical courses ranging from Basic CPR to EMT and Combat Search and Rescue Medicine. He has been involved in the Washington State Emergency Medical System now for 5 years. Before that he has extensive work in the Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.’s EMS systems. 
 
 

Medical/Instruction Qualifications-

US Navy Combat Search and Rescue Medical Technician

National Registry EMT

EMT Instructor

AHA ACLS Instructor

AHA BLS Training Site Faculty/ Instructor Trainer

AHA PALS Certified

Operational Emergency Medical Skills Course Certified

Basic Trauma Life Support Certified

Trauma Combat Casualty Care Course Certified

US Army Medical Evacuation Course Certified

US Navy Aerospace Medicine Technician

 

Aircrew Qualifications-

US Navy Aircrewman

SH-60F/ HH-60H Helicopter Rescue Crewchief

STRIKE Level III Crewchief/ Instructor

UH-3H Helicopter Crewman

Helicopter Inland Rescue Aircrewman

Helicopter Weapons School STRIKE Course

 

Others-

US Navy SERE School

USMC Jungle Survival School

US Air Force Arctic Survival School

US Navy First Line Leadership Course

Shipboard Firefighting School

Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist

Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist

 

Duty Stations-

1996-1998- Presidential Honor Guard, Washington D.C.

1998-2000- National naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD/ NICU

2000-2003- NS Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico/ VC-8 SAR

2003-2007- NAS Whidbey Island, WA/ SAR Unit

2007- Present- HS-14, Atsugi, Japan/ CSAR Unit