NASAR Tracker

After the ‘core field skills' of the Search and Rescue professional have been met, decisions are made to expand one's specialty or the teams specialty in order to become more effective for the SAR effort in your area. NASAR has shown insight and leadership in developing text books, field classes, and credentialing for the core skills in their SAR TECH program. We are preparing to enter a new phase of NASAR Educational material to assist your units to add greater depth of training for your ground teams.

The NASAR Tracker program is getting ready to take flight with NASAR Instructors and Unit Training Instructor Tools. This program will be compatible with all current commercial tracking schools [as a pre class or a post class] and will meet ASTM Standards. It will also provide your internal unit instructors material that will promote consistency of terms, technique, tactics and practice for an inclusive cohesive interaction with your neighboring SAR unit.

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Mantracking as an add-on skill set and can be learned by all searchers and then continuously built upon towards an ever growing expertise in the skill of visual tracking.

As we develop into a standing committee we will be building on our committee membership. The Committee meets routinely via conference call and communicates regularly concerning either self initiated projects or those tasked by the NASAR Board of Directors as well as monitoring the progress of the ASTM Committee.

All Committee members are trackers from varied backgrounds and training. As we develop Instructors or Lead Instructors these folks will be invited to be a part of the Tracking Committee.

We maintain and monitor a discussion group at http://nasartrackingprogram.wiggio.com that is separate form the committee, we often ask the discussion group their opinions on issues that we are acting on. The current password is: nasartracker Join in if you'd like.

Additionally we maintain and monitor a group at http://astmtrackingstandards.wiggio.com and the current password is: astmtracker Join in if you'd like.

We will:
1. Honor the legacies of that handful of notable United States Border Patrol Officers that reintroduced the skill set of mantracking back into our lexicon. Also
2. Honor the many tracking schools and unique pockets of skill development that has taken place and certainly the state/county coordinated tracking programs with standards.
3. Express high gratitude to the hundreds of in-house SAR Unit tracking trainers that have developed and stepped forward over these past 40 years of SAR tracking establishment. Propagating the tracking skill set within our SAR Units.

Training. Certification. Advocacy. One voice... that others may live.

NASAR Tracker

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