MPA-C, Division Chief Retired VBFRS
Varangian Guard International
VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia, United States
BIO CHASE SARGENT
Chase Sargent retired as a Division Chief/Paramedic with the Virginia Beach Fire and Rescue Department in 2005 after 26.5 years of service. During his tenure he served in a variety of operational and administrative capacities including company officer, Training Captain, Operational Battalion Chief, Commanding Officer of the Special Operations Division, Homeland Security Coordinator, PIO and City- Wide Tour Commander for B shift. Chase also served as a flight medic, neo-natal pediatric paramedic, and paramedic instructor.
Chase helped found and develop the Tidewater Regional Technical Rescue Team and FEMA US&R Task Force - VATF-2 where he served as a Task Force leader and as a member of the FEMA White IST. During his assignments Chase deployed to dozens of natural disasters, the Atlanta and Salt Lake Olympics and the G-8. Chase served as the Night Operation Branch Chief at the Oklahoma City Murrah Building attack and at the World Trade Center Terrorist attacks as well as the G-8 and Olympics and multiple natural disasters.
In 1995 Chase was recruited by the Norfolk FBI to develop and fill the position of the Chief Tactical Medic for the FBI SWAT - Norfolk Field Office . Since that time Chase has served as the Chief Tactical Medic in both training and deployment and has been involved in a wide range of tactical missions, executive protection, national security events and counter-terrorism operations. He returned to the team after a six-year hiatus as a Tactical Physician Assistant in 2014 and retired in 2019 as the assistant medial director.
Over the course of his career Chase has published 60 plus articles in professional journals, provided expert witness services to cases such as the World Trade Center Health issues, and wrongful death litigation, and published two books with PennWell Publishing. The best-selling Buddy to Boss Effective Fire Service Leadership, and Confined Space Entry and Rescue Operations.
Chase was an adjunct instructor with Blackwater worldwide for 7 years, in the WPPS, Firearms and Tactics, Riverine and the special projects office. Chase was assigned to the training cadre standing up and training US Navy Riverine Squadrons I and II for deployment to Iraq.
After retiring Chase was recruited and went to work for the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security Services as a special operations medic and instructor in the Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program, where he spent two and a half years as part of a 10 man explosive incident counter measures team in South and Central Asia, Africa, Philippines, Afghanistan and other locations Following that tenure he went to work for another government agency and from 2008 – 2010 and served in Iraq on a high threat protective detail based out of Baghdad and Al Diwaniyah province for three years. In 2010 Chase was wounded and returned to the United States.
Chase continues to provide personal protective services as well as medical support in the United States as an independent contractor working for a national security firm.
Chase returned in November of 2010 and attended Eastern Virginia Medical School where he received his Master of Physician Assistant and was then accepted and completed a one-year Emergency Medicine Fellowship. Chase now works full time as an Emergency Medical Physician Assistant for Emergency Physicians of Tidewater, serving 8 major emergency rooms and two trauma centers. Chase is a faculty member of the EVMS Emergency Medicine Residency, EMS Fellowship program.
Chase continues to provide Buddy to Boss Leadership Seminars throughout the US. He also provides a wide range of lectures on decision making, Combat Fire Fighting, Medicine, and a wide range of other subjects.
ELEC-402: High Speed Leadership: Buddy to Boss on Steroids
Friday, August 18, 2023
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM