RUBR™
Rapid Urban Breaching & Rescue
"Therefore, whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war."
Vegetius, Roman military historian and philosopher
About RUBR™
RUBR™ is a system of rescue techniques and procedures developed and validated over years of trial and error in fire and rescue units worldwide. It can be adapted to any operational environment in order to increase the survivability of today's injured civilians and military personnel. RUBR's uniqueness is the simplicity of its techniques, allowing rapid intervention with extremely limited resources, under hostile conditions, and with easy-to-remember procedures.
Many of the techniques that make up the RUBR™ system are already familiar to both military personnel and civilian fire/rescue staff. RUBR™ combines new techniques and refreshes, simplifies, and reinforces some old, creating a "tool box" with which combat troops can reduce the fog of war during casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) operations, and fire/police/rescue members can cut life-saving minutes off the time needed to move victims to points of treatment and evacuation.
“Thank you very much for the great period of instruction/training. The classes and practical application was beneficial to all--your folks were both professional and superb trainers.”
Lt. Col. Chris Dowling, CO
3rd Battalion/5th Marine Regiment
1st Marine Division
"I've done police special ops for almost 30 years, and I learned new stuff in those few hours with Ed and the other guys [Contact Front] that I never knew!”
Inspector Sean Finerty
Uniform Operations
Wilmington Police Department SWAT
RUBR™ Training Courses
Contact Front, LLC, will send mobile training teams to any unit, military or civilian, within the US (CONUS) or outside its borders (OCONUS), in need of RUBR™ and CRS training. Clients can opt for the standard training package, or Contact Front can specifically tailor a training package to meet the need of the unit.
The standard training package consists of an eight-hour Period of Instruction (POI) and covers the following concepts:
- Casualty Assessment
- Drags and Carries
- Mechanical Advantage
- Mechanical Breaching
- Confined Space Rescue
- Vehicle Extrication
- Stairwell and Window Extrication
- Using the Combat Rescue Sling™ (CRS)
- First Aid
- Small Unit Tactical Planning and Execution
The training consists of roughly 1hour of classroom training and 7 hours of practical application where students are rotated through seven different skill stations by Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) covering the basic concepts of the course.
Standard RUBR™ Schedule
Morning
Classroom training
Skill Station 1: Basic Drags and Carries
Skill Station 2: Ropes and Mechanical Advantage
Skill Station 3: Vehicle Extrication
Afternoon
Skill Station 4: Stairway Drills
Skill Station 5: Confined Space Drills
Skill Station 6: Window Extrication Drill
Skill Station 7: Small Unit Leadership Challenge
Other Courses
Rapid Response Planning
Course length: 8 hours
This course focuses on the tactical planning and execution of rapid response to crisis situations. Based off a shortened form of the military planning process, this course will enable operators to quickly formulate a course of action and plan for foreseeable contingencies during execution. During this course, students will be introduced to a cutting edge planning tool used by special operations capable military units. The curriculum combines classroom with tactical decision games/ sand table exercises with the option of a mock mission execution.
Essential Tactics
Course length: varies on needs of the unit
This course focuses on squad and platoon level tactics and provides a basic familiarization with essential infantry tactics such as:
- Basic Principles of Fire and Maneuver
- Patrolling
- Immediate Action Drills
- MOUT Principles
- Convoy Operations
- Supporting Arms
This course is accomplished through classroom and practical application.