[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] ICS Courses offered by Alexandria City for 2025

[Sandy Kenyon]

Sean et. all,
If you need to see what Indepent Study course that you've taken, and make
sure that it is the current version you can look at your transcript and the
course certificate here https://training.fema.gov/student/sssp.aspx

I wouldn't recommend encrypting your certificates, that will only add
problems down the line. Only personal data on them is your name.

There are other classes in the area coming up if the ones from the city of
Alexandria do not work. You can sign up for them by using the Commonwealth
of Virginia Learning Center (COVLC) . It works best when using Google
Chrome:  https://covlc.virginia.gov/ Attached is the External Account
Creation Job Aide for setting up an account on COVLC if you don’t have one.
DC and Maryland also have classes, but DC doesn't have any listed yet.

*ICS-300 Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents*
April 7-9, 2025 4890 Alliance Dr. 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

September 8-10, 2025 4890 Alliance Dr. 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

November 17-19, 2025 4890 Alliance Dr. 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

 Also in Arlington March 3-5 & November 3-5 and Prince William April 1-3
and September 9-11


*ICS-400 Advanced ICS for Complex Incidents*

May 20-21, 2025 4890 Alliance Dr. 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

October 7-11, 2025 4890 Alliance Dr. 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

December 9-10, 2025 4890 Alliance Dr. 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

 Also in Arlington March 6-7 & November 6-7 and Prince William February
11-12, June 10-11, and October 9-11



*ICS-191 ICS EOC Interface*

Prince William May 6

Prince William November 18


73,
Sandy KQ4DNE

On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM Joe K <joek at 26xx.org> wrote:

>
> Great question,
>
> I can't speak to how Alex runs theirs but every course I've been to
> required ALL prerequisite certificates. IE, Even though in order to take
> ICS 300, you need 100/200/700/800, I still needed to furnish my
> 100/200/700/800 certs when I took ICS-400 as well as my 300 cert since they
> were all listed as pre-reqs.
>
> I would strongly recommend you use GPG or Veracrypt to encrypt all your
> certifications and paperwork for these types of things and store a copy on
> a USB hard drive (or thumbdrive) and a copy on something like Proton Drive
> or another encrypted data storage service.
>
> For those who may be unfamiliar with any of this, ICS courses are a
> requirement to function as ARES team member, they ensure you the basic
> knowledge to function on a NIMS or ICS structured event (which is any event
> where the EM or EOC is involved). ICS-100, ICS-200, ICS-700, and 800
> fullfill most of what you'll need, all are available as self paced online
> courses with unproctored exams. You can go to this site and search them
>
> https://training.fema.gov/is/
>
>
>
>
> Joe K.
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, January 21st, 2025 at 5:18 PM, Sean Gallagher <
> comms at gallagher.us.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Awesome! Thanks Joe! I'll send you my list. Wonder if we'll need to
> furnish completion certificates if there are pre-reqs? That may require a
> little electronic digging!!
> > R/
> > Sean
> >
> >
> > > On 01/21/2025 3:12 PM EST Joe K joek at 26xx.org wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > I wanted share some opportunities with you for the 2025 calendar year.
> > >
> > > If you are interested in any of these classes please reach out to me
> via email so I can get a roster together and submit the names all at once
> to our EM.
> > >
> > > KD2HZG
> > > Alexandria ARES
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