BOOT CAMP!

Welcome to Boot Camp!

For all things related to Boot Camp:

• 2022 STAR 1 Calendar  (includes Boot Camp Schedule)
• 2022 Boot Camp Fact Sheet with Boot Camp Schedule
• NASAR's Consolidated Pack Guide Announcement
  
• FUNSAR Practice Quizzes  (log in to VR to view)
  
  • Divided into sections 1-3, as are the sections in the FUNSAR book
  • Click the drop-down menu at the upper right corner of each course page to access additional chapters
  • Minimum score is 80%; you'll need 70% for both written portions of the NASAR Exam.
    
  • Use your book here - you won't get to on the exam!
    
• SAR SKILLS
  
  • Search and Rescue Knots  (AnimatedKnots.com)
    • Figure Eight Follow Thru with a safety backup (used when the knot must be tied around an object)
    • Figure Eight on a Bight with safety backup (tie the figure eight but with a bight of rope - the resulting knot is the same as the Follow Through but is used when the knot can be dropped over the object or clipped onto a carabiner)
    • Figure Eight Bend with safety backup on both sides (used to join two ropes)
    • Water Knot with safety backup on both sides (used to join tubular webbing)
    • Prusik Knot (used with a carabiner to attach a harness to a lifeline)
      • Military Prusik Knot video
        
    • Improvised Harness with appropriate ending knot and backup safety knots (a similar harness can be tied with a loop of webbing; harness must stay in place without being held and while rescuer moves)
  • Map and Compass
    • MapTools.com
      • Understanding Contour Lines
      • Map Tools Tutorial Videos
      • Using the UTM Coordinate System
      • Plotting a Bearing onto your map
        • Plotting a bearing using a protractor
        • Plotting a bearing using a baseplate compass
        • Plotting a bearing using a baseplate compass adjusted for declination
        • Plotting a bearing using a straight edged lensatic compass  (after orienting the map)
      • UTM Worksheet  (print Garden Meadows Practice Map to scale for use with UTM grid reader!)
        
        • UTM Practice Map  (Garden Meadows map - also available from training coordinator)
          
        • UTM Worksheet - Answers  (you may need to log in)
          
    • Map Tech
      
      • MapTech Map Problems  (print maps to scale for use with UTM grid reader!)
        
        • Guthrie Center East (Lake Panorama)  (8 1/2 X 14 - also available from training coordinator)
          
        • Fort Dodge South (Lizard Creek)  (8 1/2 X 14 - also available from training coordinator)
          
        • Fort Dodge South (Gypsum Creek)  (8 1/2 X 14 - also available from training coordinator)
          
        • Lansing  (8 1/2 X 14 - also available from training coordinator)
          
        • Harpers Ferry  (8 1/2 X 14 - also available from training coordinator)
          
        • MapTech Map Problems - Answers  (you may need to log in)
          
    • CompassDude.com
      
      • Orienting a Map
      • Magnetic Declination
    • Adjusting for Magnetic Declination
      
    • Perambulate a polygon! ("3 Great Compass Navigation Exercises")
      • (Shown at Ada Hayden Park, Ames)
        
      • (Ada Hayden and McFarland park, on SARTopo)

• • Man Tracking 101
    
    • SARTech II Exam Tasks
      • Indicate, measure and mark Stride
      • Indicate, measure and mark length of Print
      • Indicate, measure and mark the width of Ball
      • Indicate, measure and mark the width of Heel
      • Indicate, measure and mark the width of Instep
      • Properly search for the next track by “sweeping”
      • Indicate and properly mark 10 out of 10 tracks

• Basic GPS Operations *
  
  • SARTech II Exam Tasks
    
    • Turn unit on and off
    • Indicate what battery life is left in batteries
    • Demonstrate how to change batteries
    • Set map datum (indicated by Evaluator)
    • Set units for distance (indicated by Evaluator)
    • Set location date type (indicated by Evaluator - we may substitute time)
    • Set units for location coordinate readout
    • Clear track log
    • Turn track log on and off
    • Determine current location (in UTM)
    • Plot current location on the provided topographic map (in UTM)
    • Describe how does GPS unit indicate if it has adequate satellite coverage

* You may test with a Team unit (Garmin Legend etrex HCx) or with your own.  Instructions for some of the Garmins models are here.

• NASAR's SARTech II Exam Info
• FEMA Independent Study Courses  (you'll need ICS 100 for the exam and 200, 700 and 5a for membership)
• STAR 1 Membership Requirements can be found in the New Member Information and New Member Requirements documents at http://star1.org/join.html.