SARTECH III with correct
questions and answers
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[COMPANY NAME] [Company address]
, 1. What is the definition of Search? Answer: to identify and locate persons who are or
may become distressed or injured and are unable to return to a place of safety on their own.
2. What is the definition of Rescue? Answer: is the access, stabilize and evacuate
distressed or injured persons by whatever mean necessary, to ensure their timely transfer to an
appropriate care facility or to a familiar environment.
3. List the components of SAR? Answer: -Pre-planning
-Notification
-Planning & Strategy
-Operation/Tactics
-Suspension
-Critique
4. What is the definition of Tactic? Answer: is an action used to achieve an objective;
action resource used to find direction of travel, confine the search area, or attract a subject.
5. Define 4 core elements of the "LAST" acronym? Answer: -Locate
-Access
-Stabilize
-Transport
6. Preplanning is necessary because it provides? Answer: The SAR response
ahead of the time for the team and each member. There needs to be an understanding of
vulnerabilities and potential problems than can be foreseen. Team capabilities what you can and can't
do.
7. What factors would require the suspension of a search? Answer: Lack of
clues, expenditure of all resources, external influences, financial resources, subject located.
8. What is the AFRCC and what is its function? Answer: Air Force Rescue
Coordination Center. Is the single agency responsible for coordinating inland federal SAR in the
48 states, Mexico and Canada. Mainly for downed aircrafts.
9. What are the 6 expected qualities of a SAR responder? Answer: -
Professional
-Competent
-Prepared
-Focused
-Trained
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questions and answers
usr
[COMPANY NAME] [Company address]
, 1. What is the definition of Search? Answer: to identify and locate persons who are or
may become distressed or injured and are unable to return to a place of safety on their own.
2. What is the definition of Rescue? Answer: is the access, stabilize and evacuate
distressed or injured persons by whatever mean necessary, to ensure their timely transfer to an
appropriate care facility or to a familiar environment.
3. List the components of SAR? Answer: -Pre-planning
-Notification
-Planning & Strategy
-Operation/Tactics
-Suspension
-Critique
4. What is the definition of Tactic? Answer: is an action used to achieve an objective;
action resource used to find direction of travel, confine the search area, or attract a subject.
5. Define 4 core elements of the "LAST" acronym? Answer: -Locate
-Access
-Stabilize
-Transport
6. Preplanning is necessary because it provides? Answer: The SAR response
ahead of the time for the team and each member. There needs to be an understanding of
vulnerabilities and potential problems than can be foreseen. Team capabilities what you can and can't
do.
7. What factors would require the suspension of a search? Answer: Lack of
clues, expenditure of all resources, external influences, financial resources, subject located.
8. What is the AFRCC and what is its function? Answer: Air Force Rescue
Coordination Center. Is the single agency responsible for coordinating inland federal SAR in the
48 states, Mexico and Canada. Mainly for downed aircrafts.
9. What are the 6 expected qualities of a SAR responder? Answer: -
Professional
-Competent
-Prepared
-Focused
-Trained
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