MEP Wins Contract to Support Combat Airmen Skills Training (CAST) Course

5/11/2010

CHANTILLY, VA – Mission Essential Personnel, LLC (MEP) announced today that the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Operation School awarded MEP a contract to provide 30 full-time instructors to support the Combat Airmen Skills Training course at Joint Base Dix-McGuire-Lakehurst, NJ.

The instructors will train Airmen in basic combat skills including marksmanship, land navigation, convoy operations/vehicle roll over procedures, Survival Escape Resistance and Evasion (SERE), radio procedures, and squad level battle drills.

The initial award is for one year, with the likelihood of an additional 4 years.

MEP is the U.S. Department of Defense’s leading provider of translators, interpreters and cultural advisors in Afghanistan, with more than 5,000 personnel in theater and hundreds more in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.  MEP also provides intelligence support and training & technical services to the military, intelligence community and development organizations.