This series of posts outlines some of my thoughts on how to improve the way ALSAR Units, and other SAR teams searching for vulnerable missing persons, run missing person search exercises.

Introduction and Search Exercise Objectives

Selecting an Area for the Search Exercise

Practical Aspects of Running a Search Exercise

Terrain Analysis for Search Exercises

Search Exercise Scenarios

Clues for Search Exercises

Briefing for Search Exercises

Search Exercise Debriefing

I hope you found/find the series useful.

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