FY12 Inland SAR Planning Course Dates Announced |
| Posted by Ande Boyer (163212) on 26 Jun 2011 |
The course dates and locations for the FY12 offerings of the National Search & Rescue School's Inland SAR Planning Course have been posted.
12-01 17 – 21 Oct 11 Allegheny County, PA 09 Sep 11
12-02 14 – 18 Nov 11 Panama City, FL 11 Oct 11
12-03 05 – 09 Dec 11 TRACEN Yorktown, VA 01 Nov 11
12-04 09 – 13 Jan 12 Camp Murray, WA 01 Dec 11
12-05 13 – 17 Feb 12 Houston, TX 03 Jan 12
12-06 12 – 16 Mar 12 Nesbit, MS 05 Feb 12
12-07 23 – 27 Apr 12 Frankfort, KY 12 Mar 12
12-08 14 – 18 May 12 Helena, MT 02 Apr 12
12-09 11 – 15 Jun 12 Bismarck, ND 30 Apr 12
12-10 09 – 13 Jul 12 TRACEN Yorktown, VA 28 May 12
12-11 13 – 17 Aug 12 Concord, NH 02 Jul 12
12-12 10 – 14 Sep 12 Salem, OR 30 Jul 12
As you can see, there are multiple dates that aren't that far from AL.
This is a free course that every CAP member serious about SAR should attend. It's 5 days long (Mon-Fri) and is absolutely the highest quality. (If you go to the one at Yorktown, you can stay in USCG transient housing for free and eat in the dining hall for cheap....highly recommended!) It's taught by active duty Air Force and Coast Guard instructors that typically have made a career out of search & rescue. This course will open your eyes as to how much of a science SAR planning really is and how methodically it can be done.
The 5-day Inland SAR Planning course is a comprehensive, “graduate-level” look at inland search theory and its application to land and air searches for missing persons and aircraft with a focus on wilderness, not urban, searches.
The course consists of classroom lessons and practical, tabletop exercises. This course does not incorporate field training. Emphasis is on the planning necessary for effective area-type searching during an extended search using Probability of Success (POS), rather than just a few elements of POC (POA) or POD, to predictively allocate limited resources to their best effect. In essence, what to do after the rapid (hasty) search and specialty resources have not found the missing person. Additional topics include pre-plan development, legal aspects, NIMS/ICS applied to SAR, the federal role in SAR, and related subjects. The course does not teach search tactics or technical procedures, as those are well covered from other readily available sources.
The course is directed toward SAR leaders in federal, state, and local emergency services and law enforcement, as well as Civil Air Patrol, international, and volunteer SAR agencies -- those few people who are responsible for the planning and overall conduct of inland search missions. The target audience includes on-scene incident commanders and their planners, operations leaders, and up-channel reporting chain.
Aiming to "find the objective fast," the course centers on tools to help SAR decision makers determine where to search, how to divide an area between limited search resources, and how to craft the overall search effort to gain the best increases in likelihood of success at each step. The tools are mathematically based and not for the faint of heart; they help quantify the uncertainties of the search problem to allow consistent application throughout a mission.
Classes begin promptly at 0800 on the convening date and graduate by 1500 on the fifth day.
For more information, visit http://www.uscg.mil/tcyorktown/ops/sar/Inland/default.asp
To apply to this course, visit https://ntc.cap.af.mil/ops/inland_sar/
Last changed: 26 Jun 2011 at 16:07
Back