Search and Rescue
It's official! Just swore in with Search and Rescue. Super happy, I've tried to get on for over 3 years now and it finally happened. Dive rescue/recovery, man tracking, special forces, air squadron, soon rope rescue team. I've been craving this for years. And it looks like I'll be starting fire medic shifts on an ALS engine in a few weeks. Woohoo!
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SFC Raymond Munden
CPL Charles Gaffney
SSG Nolan P. Barham
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How is it lashed up with government agencies? A lot of resources out there from all levels.
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Congrats, man...Long journey make the destination that much sweeter.
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Congrats. It's guys like you that keep the rest of us safe. Thanks!
Congratulations. Keep following your dream.
Congrats! Glad your getting where you wanted to be!
Thanks!
I read this a couple times and I don't understand what you are saying/asking. Sorry.Originally Posted by Old GI
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SFC Raymond Munden
CPL Charles Gaffney
SSG Nolan P. Barham
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Congrats! I'm a certified man tracker myself. Lots of good training opportunities out there with S&R.
Thanks. It sure sounds like it. If they have a patrol car that's a hot pink mustang the training budget must be alright haha... Sounds like they needed young people pretty bad, especially divers. Hoping I can push for a technical rope rescue team. Sounds like there are one or two others besides myself with some high angle training.
I'll take whatever training I can get but I don't know how well man tracking will stick with me. I am horrible with simple animal tracks. Can never remember what's what.
R.I.P.
SFC Raymond Munden
CPL Charles Gaffney
SSG Nolan P. Barham
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Well, remembering what a man track looks like should be easy. Just take a step and look down.
Ah, you'll do great, don't worry. 99% of the time they never use man trackers anyway. It's more simple to use a grid search in most areas. The squad here is hurting for young guys too. Their main thing is vehicle extrication though. I had an application in for a while but when I went to the meetings, they never had enough people show up to vote me in, lol. I mainly stick with the EMA guys now at work and respond as a volunteer if we have something big enough.
Congratulations! I know you've been on this for a while. Hope it keeps on going for you!
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Oh awesome, I'm so happy for you! Good luck and have fun. I know, it's not fun per say, but satisfying.
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Hahaha.
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SFC Raymond Munden
CPL Charles Gaffney
SSG Nolan P. Barham
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They could maybe use your help in New York about now....
Them boys have been falling all over them selves for a week looking for the two escapees.
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First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
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Nice!
Great going! We have a member who hasn't been posting for awhile: Rick SAR," like to see him come back on, but now we have you so really cool!...
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Excellent! Congrats, man.
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Congratulations. As I am sure you know it can be an extremely rewarding job, then sometimes it really sucks. I guess I live for the good runs and the easy reports! Glad you are hitting you goals. Plus we need young motivated folks to replace old guys who end up in other jobs on the chart that are just not the same as being "boots on the ground" THANK YOU!
Dave
Thanks.
I think remember him Sarge. LE guy they sent off to tracking school?
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SFC Raymond Munden
CPL Charles Gaffney
SSG Nolan P. Barham
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I can remember my old Chief telling me one time when I was starting to feel 'old', that we need to keep the old farts around to ride herd on the young kids.
Congrats on the deal, it can be really rewarding at time. It can also be a challenging job, like fighting two barge fires on the Ohio River.
Bill
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