L0969 All-Hazards Communications Unit Leader (COML)

TEMA and our local governemnt partners will be conducting a FEMA Communications Leader (COML) L0969 Class July 22-24, 2025. This class will be held at TEMA West Region Headquarters in Jackson, TN.

The class size will be no more than 30 students. This roster will close on July 11, 2025, or when the class registration meets the maximum number of students.

A written application for official registration and additional class information will be emailed following registration. To register, please email Jimmy Floyd at jimmy.floyd@tn.gov.

Course Objectives:

• Identify the functions of the Communications Unit and the duties and responsibilities of the COML.
• Arrive at an all-hazards incident properly equipped, gather information to assess the assignment, and begin initial planning activities of a COML.
• Plan, staff, manage, and demobilize the Communications Unit safely and effectively to meet the needs of the incident. 

Pre-requisites include:

• A public safety communications background or duties with exposure to field operations and communications; this experience will be validated by the authority supervising the applicant in the course application that will be emailed after this initial sign-up.
• Fundamental public safety communications technology, supervisory, and personnel management skills. These include, but are not limited to:
  • Knowledge of local and regional communication systems
  • Frequencies and spectrum
  • Technologies
  • Knowledge of local topography
  • Knowledge of system site locations, including knowledge of local, regional, and state communications plans, and knowledge of local and regional Tactical Interoperable Communications Plans, if available.

The applicant is REQUIRED to have completed the following before class:

• ICS-100
• ICS-200
• ICS-300
• ICS 700
• ICS 800

Each student must bring a laptop and a USB 16 GB thumb drive. The course material will be copied to the thumb drive. Students attending this course will be responsible for their own expenses (travel, hotel, meals, and other expenses). There is no reimbursement from TEMA.