(DVIDS) Staff Sgt. Matthew Gunther - 15 New York Army National Guard engineers got hands-on training from four members of Israel's Home Front Command on Israeli techniques for locating and rescuing people from destroyed buildings during three days of training from July 17 to 19 in Oriskany, NY. Israel's Home Front Command are the acknowledged experts in the art and science of saving people from destroyed buildings, said Maj. Kevin O'Reilly Jr., executive officer of the Guard's 204th Engineer Battalion. "They are able to understand and map collapsed structures, accurately predicting where to find victims trapped in chaotic rubble." Spc. Jerome Griffin said, "We have a tendency to want to jump in and just start saving people as fast as we can, but the engineers from Israel really stressed patience. They said to take a step back and really calculate how to operate safely and smoothly without causing more damage, and that really resonated with me."
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