Sunday, 17 March 2013

First weekend at Camp Attebury


This is the first chance after a hectic weekend I have had a chance to write anything.

Camp Atterbury:  bit bigger than I thought 300,000 acres is big, home to the Indiana state guard and reserve training.

Also as mentioned home to the Dept. of Homeland Security Search and Rescue Centre for Indiana.

I am lucky enough to be here for around 3 weeks (was originally one but my Canada problem prompted this as an option)

The SAR centre is a great facility and provides training for SAR –State/County wide .Police training facilities for SAWT teams and specialist search .Government agencies in search and disaster management, so a huge raft of activities.

This weekend has been a Basic/inter trailing dog course.

About 12 attendees from various depts. including Police, Fire and Rescue and the voluntary sector.

Run in near sub-zero temps, which I am being blamed for bringing) but some very good training done and lessons learnt.

The next few days will be an opportunity to really find out how the location works what can we learn from it , could a place such as this exist in the UK ?

2 comments:

  1. We may struggle to find a suitable 300,000 acres site ;)

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  2. Simon I think that covers most of kent ?

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