This course is designed to provide the participants with the core knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform search and rescue operations in a wilderness environment. A heavy focus is placed on the need for the Incident Command System, safety, search team coordination and communication, PPE, search techniques, land/air navigation, and practical skill exercises. The student will learn self-survival skills, including what equipment should be taken when going on a search, how to build an overnight shelter, water treatment options, wilderness first-aid, and investigation skills for different types of searching. Course will also include patient packaging and patient removal from the wilderness. Instructor: Roger Brafford Prerequisite: Wilderness SAR Awareness AND either EMR, EMT, or Wilderness First Aid Equipment Required: Outdoor Appropriate PPE