Federal Civil Defense Staff College, Olney, MD
Federal Civil Defense Staff College, Olney, MD : Opened on April 30, 1951. (FCDA, Annual Report 1951, 1952, p. 21) "The Federal Civil Defense Staff College at Olney, Md., has given 25 courses to State and local administrative personnel since its opening April 30, 1951. A total of 1,016 students have attended its six-day courses. They have come from all 48 States, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The vast majority of the students have been State and local administrators of civil defense. Many have come from industry, labor, and national organizations. Fourteen have been from the Red Cross, 12 from the Atomic Energy Commission, 94 from the three branches of the Department of Defense, and 58 from various other Federal agencies, such as Department of Agriculture, General Services Administration, Federal Security Agency, Department of Justice, and Department of the Treasury. In addition, 17 civil defense officials have attended from Canada and 4 from England. Among topic covered in discussions, demonstrations, and exercises were the following: Organization of Civil Defense; Vulnerability Analysis; The System of Web Defense; Zoning and Zone Control for Civil Defense; Mutual Aid and Mobile Support; Attack Warning and Communications; Civil Defense Operational Services; Postattack Estimates. Training officials visited 35 States in 1951, to advise and assist State and local civil defense officials. Training officers are already assignede to six of the nine regional offices? The major accomplishment of FCDA in Training and Education during 1951 was the establishment of a national civil defense training system, including setting up a national staff college [Olney, MD] and three training schools [the Central Training school, Stillwater, OK, which opened July 30, 1951; the Western Training School, St. Mary's CA, which opened October 8, 1951 [closed Sep 1953]44; and the Eastern Training School, which opened at Abington, PA on February 4, 1952]". This leadership is designed to provide help to the States in speeding up their own training programs so as to give adequate instruction to the millions of volunteers who are needed to establish the United States Civil Defense Corps". (FCDA, 1952 Annual Report, pp. 22, 23-24)
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