OPERATIONAL MEDICINE & RESCUE TRAINING

Custom training for professional teams operating where conventional medicine and rescue stop.

MILITARY • LAW ENFORCEMENT • EMS • RESCUE

TRAINING CAPABILITIES

Every program is built around your team, mission, equipment, procedures, operating environment and objectives. Rescue & Coffee does not provide generic, off-the-shelf courses.

RESCUE & HOIST OPERATIONS

Customized rescue and helicopter hoist training for mountain, urban and water environments—built around your aircraft, equipment, procedures and mission profile.

Examples may include
  • Hoist operator and rescue specialist training
  • Mountain, urban and water operations
  • Complex extraction scenarios
  • Night and reduced-visibility operations
  • Aircraft-specific procedures
  • Team integration and mission rehearsal

OPERATIONAL MEDICINE

Customized prehospital and operational medical training focused on fast, precise decision-making in high-risk and resource-limited environments.

Examples may include
  • Tactical and combat casualty care
  • Prolonged casualty management
  • Advanced prehospital procedures
  • Damage-control resuscitation
  • Team-based medical scenarios
  • Medical decision-making under operational pressure

MOUNTAIN & EXTREME ENVIRONMENT MEDICINE

Customized medical and rescue training for alpine, remote, expeditionary and extreme environments.

Examples may include
  • Mountain emergency medicine
  • Environmental illness and injury
  • Remote casualty management
  • Alpine rescue integration
  • Expedition medicine
  • Complex scenarios in difficult terrain
18+Years Rescue & Operational Medicine
1,600+Rescues
340+Hoist Missions
USAFPararescue
CoTCCCVoting Member
U.S. Air Force Pararescueman under canopy
Experience

Experience that comes from doing the job

Training is led by Oliver Kreuzer, a U.S. Air Force Pararescueman and former Air Zermatt helicopter rescuer, with 18 years of alpine and operational rescue experience, more than 1,600 rescues and over 340 hoist missions.

He has taught Mountain Emergency Medicine and DiMM courses since 2008, including for Air Zermatt, and is a current voting member of the Joint Trauma System Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care.

  • U.S. Air Force Pararescueman (PJ)
  • Former Air Zermatt helicopter rescuer
  • Mountain Emergency Medicine & DiMM instructor, 2008–2025
  • CoTCCC voting member — Joint Trauma System
  • Military Freefall — HALO & HAHO
  • Combat Diver — open and closed-circuit
  • Hoist Operator & Longline Instructor
  • Master’s Degree in Mountain Emergency Medicine
Full credentials

Built around your mission

No two teams operate under the same conditions. Each program is developed specifically for the client—from focused skills training to complex, integrated mission scenarios.

  1. 01

    Define the requirement

    We discuss your mission, personnel, equipment, procedures, operating environment and performance gaps.

  2. 02

    Design the program

    Training content, complexity and scenarios are developed around your objectives and available resources.

  3. 03

    Train in context

    Training is delivered at your location or in an environment appropriate to the mission whenever practical.

  4. 04

    Evaluate and refine

    Performance feedback and operational lessons identify strengths, gaps and future training priorities.

Train for the environment you actually operate in.

Tell us about your team, mission and training objectives. We will develop a program around your operational requirements.

Discuss Your Training Requirement

DISCUSS YOUR TRAINING REQUIREMENT

Tell us about your team, operating environment, equipment and training objectives. We will contact you directly to discuss the requirement and determine the most effective training approach.