SAR Fundamentals/Mock Search

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Revision as of 19:38, 9 January 2013

19:00-22:00 evening

Issues related to mock search from SAR Fundamentals perspectives

small groups of students, typically 2-4 students
Please use the current version of our forms, as these are the ones we teach from.
if available, each group of students has one experienced searcher with them
emphasize to experienced searcher that unlike previous training, Type 1 search is fast, hussle, no purposeful wandering
Use call signs according to the current SAR Alberta communications standard. Instead of Team Alpha, Team Bravo, it's S1 (Sierra 1), S2 (Sierra 2) for ground searchers.
each student gets a chance to take Team Leader role
- scheduled switching, called by overhead team
groups are ghosted by an evaluator
ghosts can teach, but shouldn't participate
ghosts may wander between student teams if there's not enough of them
ghosts should have a separate radio channel to the overhead team, search planners
ghosts should have map of segment boundaries
Students tend to want to know in the critique the exact location of clues not found on mock

Suggestion for future mock searches:

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 * if available, each group of students has one experienced searcher with them
 * emphasize to experienced searcher that unlike previous training, Type 1 search is fast, hussle, no purposeful wandering
-* Use call signs according to [http://saralberta.dnsalias.org:8080/mediawiki/index.php/Telecommunications_Standard the current SAR Alberta communications standard].  Instead of Team Alpha, Team Bravo, it's S1 (Sierra 1), S2 (Sierra 2).
+* Use call signs according to [http://saralberta.dnsalias.org:8080/mediawiki/index.php/Telecommunications_Standard the current SAR Alberta communications standard].  Instead of Team Alpha, Team Bravo, it's S1 (Sierra 1), S2 (Sierra 2) for ground searchers.
 * each student gets a chance to take Team Leader role
 ** scheduled switching, called by overhead team