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TSAR Board of Directors, General Meeting/Classroom, Field, & Special Units Training & Meeting Calendar  February 2008
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
			1	2	1	2
3 K-9 Unit Training: Hwy 518: FR442, Mica Valley: 9am	4 K-9 Obedience - Sundance PAC- 6:30pm	5	6 TSAR Board of Directors Meeting - 6:30pm - H&R Block	7	8 K-9 Unit Agility Course Build: 10am. K-9 Unit Training: Hwy 64: FR 10A, Capuulin Canyon, 2:30pm	9
10	11 K-9 Obedience - Sundance PAC- 6:30pm	12	13	14	15	16
17 K-9 Unit Training: Hwy 518: FR 476, Vallecitos, 9am	18 K-9 Obedience - Sundance PAC- 6:30pm	19	20 TSAR Monthly Meeting & Classroom Training: 6:30, The Quality Inn	21 K-9 Unit Training: MSARCO, Pagosa Springs	22 K-9 Unit Training: MSARCO, Pagosa Springs	23 K-9 Unit Training: MSARCO, Pagosa Springs
24 K-9 Unit Training: MSARCO, Pagosa Springs	25 K-9 Obedience - Sundance PAC- 6:30pm	26	27 K-9 Unit Meeting & Classroom - Sundance PAC- 7:00pm	28	29	30

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For specific training questions, please contact the TSAR Training Officer, Delinda VanneBrightyn at 505-737-5511.

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Taos Search & Rescue - 2008 Class & Field Training Descriptions

January
Medical Scenarios: Splinting & Cold Weather - Medical scenario stations for optimizing hands-on experience: 1) determining and setting an arm fracture, 2) determining and setting a leg fracture, and 3) determining and caring for a cold weather situation.
Cold Weather Search & Evacuation - search techniques for back-country snow situations and litter packaging utilizing the Sked litter & evacuation on skis and snow shoes.

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February
Avalanche & Snow Rescue Skills - understanding snow and slope conditions for avalanche and the related skills necessary for safe snow search and rescue.
Avalanche Search Skills - avalanche beacon, probing, and practice of avalanche awareness skills.

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March
Basic Search Techniques & K-9 Support - Application of search techniques: grid search, line search, etc. Explanation of K-9 search modalities, basic scent theory, and navigation & communication support techniques and guidelines.
Mock Search - mock search with call-out, full base camp operations, utilizing ground and K-9 teams with full navigation & communications support and including medical scenarios & subject evacuation.

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April
Litter Packaging & Pack Check - Litter stations for optimizing hands-on experience utilizing: 1) the Stokes litter, 2 the break-apart litter, 3) the Sked litter, and 4) related knot-tying techniques. Pack check for summer.
Litter Packaging & Evacuation Scenarios - litter games: teams rotate through three different skill scenarios. In each there will be challenges involving specific medical conditions and how to litter package the subject for his/her condition. Search techniques and navigation to each scenario site, along with communications with base camp will also be practiced.

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May
Navigation - Map & Compass - Understanding the map, applying the compass to the map (including bearing, triangulation), and understanding the difference between UTM's and Lat-Long use in search and rescue.
Orienteering Courses & Navigation Games - practice rigging skills and teamwork to evacuate a litter through a series of hills and ravines.

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June
Crime Scene Preservation - determining what constitutes a crime preservation scene, protocols for different crime scene scenarios and recognizing, understanding and protecting clues and forensic evidence from weather & wildlife.

Man-Tracking Lecture & Field Courses - techniques for track identification and description, utilizing sun angle, sign, slope and ground cover, aging, sign-cutting, rate of travel, following a non-visible trail, and other tracking modalities. This will be the next step from the 2006 training.

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July
Severe Weather Watch Skills - learn to judge when & how quickly weather is changing for the worse and how to take the steps for surviving in the wilderness in severe weather (cold, heat, lightening, flash flood, white-outs, etc.) or when lost, injured, or things go wrong.
Camp Out: Mock Search - Mock Search in the Valle Vidal.

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August
Knots & Low-Angle Rigging - learn knots and rigging techniques required to evacuate a litter across a series of rises and falls in the landscape.
Low Angle Litter Evacuation - practice rigging skills and teamwork to evacuate a litter through a series of hills and ravines. Back To: Training Chart 2006

 

September
Navigation - GPS - a few GPS basics, but mostly delving into hidden features and usage of the GPS and utilizing the unit specifically for search and rescue applications with application to map.
Orienteering Courses & Navigation Games - Hone your skills with the map, compass, and GPS as you navigate through a course with many problems to solve and goals to acheive.

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October
Helicopter Safety - understanding the safety measures the team must take when working around helicopters, the different types of helicopters & their use for SAR, evacuation with a helicopter (packaging patients, etc), and establishing an LZ.
Helicopter Training- Practical experience with and around a helicopter.

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November
Environmental Medical & Pack Check - specifics for treating environmental medical conditions (hypo and hyper-thermia, frostbite, etc.) & winter pack check.
ELT Mock Search - teams will learn to locate a downed aircraft through utilizing ELT equipment standard in aircraft. Base Camp will be set up and navigation and communications will be utilized to unify team efforts in the field.

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December
Communications - understanding basic radio functions, unified communications structure, proper radio protocols, air communications, and communications with multiple agencies
Communication Games - a series of courses that encounters simulated search problems and requires the course runner to communicate the proper information to base: track, crime scene, found items, ROC, and location (without GPS use).

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We would like to extend a special thanks to the Quality Inn of Taos & their freindly staff. They provide Taos Search & Rescue with a meeting room for our monthly general meeting and classroom trainings, as well as any needed equipment (e.g. VCR, TV and overhead projector) to better facilitate our trainings at no charge. In addition, Quality Inn is a pet friendly hotel & gladly welcomes our K-9s to attend meetings with us, which is an important part of their training with the team. It is through the help and support of community leaders such as the Quality Inn that enables Taos Search & Rescue to continue to serve the people of New Mexico.

Quality Inn

1043 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur, Taos, NM 87571
505-758-2200

quality@newmex.com email