Mr. Ed McAlpin is the National Lab Drill & Exercise Project Manager for the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Ed has also served as an Program Director (Qatar), Instructor and Training Coordinator with TEEX.
Prior to joining TEEX, Ed was a member of the Qatar Internal Security Force, Search and Rescue Team in Doha, Qatar providing training and assuring team readiness, responding to fire and rescue incidents, and deploying on international search and rescue missions. Mr. McAlpin served as a consultant to the Royal Saudi Air Force Search and Rescue Training School, providing expertise in the areas of training and operational drills designed to prepare teams for search and rescue operations throughout the nation and region. Previously he was a Program Director for Sallyport Global Services in Basrah, Iraq, supporting coalition forces training agreements. His duties included developing an Urban Search & Rescue (US&R) training program including developing and executing an array of drills and exercises to prepare more than 120 Iraqi personnel for various US&R missions. Ed served as Rescue Supervisor and Emergency Services Trainer for Sigma International Holdings Inc. supporting the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain where Ed provided training and assisted with development and delivery of multi-discipline, multi-national exercises.
Mr. McAlpin served honorably in the United States Marine Corps as an Infantryman and Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) team member on the first U.S. military US&R team. Among his many roles, he worked in conjunction with multiple U.S. agencies to prepare and conduct large-scale, multi-agency response exercises in Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, and Pennsylvania.