SAVEM continues winter training across a diverse range of interest areas to suit our participant range and organisational needs. Posts from 1 January 2024 and 28 August 2024 explain the critical need to maintain capability and competency to be effective in deployment. Thus far in 2025 peacetime we have offered 4WD training using both Hilux vehicles, and in coming months some volunteers will train for their Heavy Vehicle licence as SAVEM’s Mobile Care Centre comes online.
From 18-20 June 2025, a team of five volunteers travelled to Naracoorte in the South East to take part in Exercise Ungulam. The Limestone Coast Zone Emergency Management Committee (ZEMC) conducted a hypothetical Foot and Mouth Disease exercise across industries, emergency services, government and Councils. About 60 people representing these interests attended for a desktop exercise on 19 June.
From 18-20 June 2025, a team of five volunteers travelled to Naracoorte in the South East to take part in Exercise Ungulam. The Limestone Coast Zone Emergency Management Committee (ZEMC) conducted a hypothetical Foot and Mouth Disease exercise across industries, emergency services, government and Councils. About 60 people representing these interests attended for a desktop exercise on 19 June.
SAVEM was invited amongst Recovery agencies. We used the opportunity to practice team deployment training using SAVEM 3, one of SAVEM’s Hilux 4WD vehicles, with full SMEAC briefing, and team org charts for scribe/comms, driver, veterinarian and team leader. SAVEM Logistics arranged accommodation at the Avenue Inn in Naracoorte.
SAVEM was welcomed to the exercise by the SAPOL facilitator and Dept of Premier & Cabinet Recovery personnel, to whom we are already well known. Our team contributed to discussions as a field resource suited to deployment within the Control area and in wider impacted communities taskings.
SAVEM was welcomed to the exercise by the SAPOL facilitator and Dept of Premier & Cabinet Recovery personnel, to whom we are already well known. Our team contributed to discussions as a field resource suited to deployment within the Control area and in wider impacted communities taskings.
In this way both team readiness and SAVEM’s capabilities were effectively demonstrated to the exercise audience. (Emilis Prelgauskas, SAVEM Logistics)
