Major General Bunting oversees the activities of The Adjutant General's Department. This includes providing personnel administration and training guidance for over 7.700 soldiers and airmen in the Kansas Army and Air National Guard.

As the Director of Kansas Emergency Management. a division of the Department, he is guiding a small professional core of personnel that prepare for and respond to disasters. In addition to the part-time soldiers and airmen. the Department he leads includes about 2.300 full-time State and Federal employees. Additionally, ID5 county emergency managers and their staffs receive guidance and training through the Department.

Major General (KS) Bunting is also the Director of Homeland Security for Kansas. where he works to ensure security in the state is a top priority. For budgetary and administrative purposes. he is responsible for the Civil Air Patrol.

Among his awards and decorations are the Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters, Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster. Army Commendation Medal, and the Air National Guard Lance P. Sijan Leadership Award. He is listed in Who's Who of America's Young Men.

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Tom Clawson has over 20 years experience in Health Physics and Environmental Safety and Health training. For the past 14 years. Tom's experience has focused on radiological emergency preparedness and training. He helped develop the Department of Energy's Modular Emergency Response Radiological Transportation Training (MERRTT) program. Tom has trained thousands of emergency responders and has presented at conferences throughout the United States. Tom currently serves on the NFPA Technical Committee on Hazardous Materials Response Personnel, which has responsibility for NFPA Standards 471,472. and 473. Prior to working in the training business, he spent nine years working in Health Physics/Radiation Safety at various commercial nuclear power plants, with the US Navy, and at the Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering Laboratory.

Brad Dennney is an LPN/MICT and has been a firefighter for over 34 years as well as an EMT/Paramedic for over 31 years. He has worked in both volunteer and combination departments as a line firefighter, instructor. EMS Training Officer, and Assistant Fire Chief. He is a HazMat Technician and an Instructor I. He had previous experience in the oil refining industry for over I7 years where he had extensive experience working with hydrofluoric acid. He is a graduate from Independence Community College and Labette Community College Nursing School.

Dan Hawley is a unit Manager of Process Engineering for Brewer Science, which produces ultra pure chemicals. Dan also has I# years fire experience and is a Captain with the St. James. (MO) Fire Protection District. He has been teaching HazMat, mostly at the technician level, for 10 years with the Fire and Rescue Training Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He was also the first nun-Rolla firefighter to be a member of the Rolla (MO) regional HazMat response team.

Glenn Jirka is the Deputy Chief for the Operations Division of the Miami Township (OH) Division of Fire and EMS.

Jirka began his fire service career with the Savoy. IL Fire Department in 1990. In 1996. Jirka accepted a position with the University of Missouri Fire and Rescue Training Institute. Jirka was responsible for the hazardous materials and counter terrorism training programs. Jirka also held an appointment as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering with the University of Missouri-Columbia. He also served Missouri Task Force One (MO TF-I) as the Hazardous Materials Leader for the team. Jirka responded with MO TF-I during the World Trade Center disaster.

Chief Jirka is active professionally at the local, state, and national level. He currently serves as Chairman of the National Fire Protection Association's Hazardous Materials Protective Clothing and Equipment Technical Committee and as a member of the NFPA Fire and Emergency Services Protective Clothing Technical Correlating Committee. Jirka is Vice Chairman of the Interagency Board for Equipment Standardization and Interoperability and also serves as the State and Local Lo-Chair for the Standards Coordination Committee of the IAB.

Eric Nold is a Federal On-Scene Coordinator with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Region VII. Eric has gained extensive experience in responding to, assessing. and cleaning up mercury spills for over 13 years and has been training responders in mercury awareness an cleanup for the last eight years. Eric was born and raised in Wathena. KS, earned a Bachelors degree in Geology from Northwest Missouri State University and Master degree in Geology from Kansas State University.

John Sachen is the Industrial Coordinator for the Fire and Rescue Training Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU FRTI). His formal teaching career began in 1956 with the U. S. Air Force where he was both an academic and tactical instructor. He became an adjunct faculty member of MU FRTI in 1978. He has worked in both the career and volunteer fire service and was also the Chief of Fire Protection and Chemical Response with Mallinckrodt Chemical Company in St. Louis. He has presented throughout the country on a variety of topics from fire behavior and initial attack to instructor development. In 2000, he co-developed the First on the Drug Lab Scene program that was handed off throughout the country via the North American Fire Training Directors. John holds a bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering.

Dave Taylor and Jerry Boswell are 23 and 19-year veterans, respectively, of the emergency services field. They have been involved with hazardous materials medicine as Hazardous Materials Technicians and ToxMedics for the past 17 years. Both are involved actively with developing and delivering hazardous materials medical training programs for hospital and pre-hospital personnel nationwide. Their experience includes working with the Kansas Division of Emergency Management, the Kansas and Missouri Hospital Associations. Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment. Kansas City Metropolitan Medical Response System. and Kansas City area hospitals to enhance their hazardous materials and terrorism medical management capabilities.

Larry Thompson is a Certified Industrial Hygienist. Larry retired in 2001 after working at the Bayer Crop Science Plant in Kansas City for 30 years and went to work for HazMat Response, Inc. in Olathe. Ks. He is a current member of the Mid-America LEPC and has been a great resource for all of the HAZMAT teams in the KC Metro area.

Christopher Wrenn is Sr. Director Americas sales for RAE Systems. Prior to RAE Systems. Mr. Wrenn held senior sales and marketing positions at SCBA manufacturers CairnsAir and Biomarine. At Biomarine, he led HazMat training programs as a rebreather trainer for the U.S. Army's STEP0 (Self Contained Toxic Environment Protection Outfit) program. Prior to Biomarine. Chris was director of marketing for Neutronics. a manufacturer of fixed gas monitors used in the chemical processing industry. Chris has been a featured speaker at more than 20 international conferences including the American Chemical Society's annual conference. NATO's advanced research workshop and Jane's Defense Weekly WMD conference. He has written over 15 articles and papers in gas detection in HazMat and industrial safety applications.