Land Navigation
RAT-SAR Training Area 100 Randall Rd, Gallant, AL, United StatesAugust 7-8, 2021 Location: Gallant, Alabama This 2-day class is designed to teach the student how to use map and compass with confidence. It covers map reading, terrain association, shooting and following an azimuth, back azimuths, intersection, resection, baselines, magnetic declination, map grids, and using a map with a GPS. The field exercise is a nav course …
Lightweight Rescue Technician
RAT-SAR Training Area 100 Randall Rd, Gallant, AL, United StatesTwo weekend course/exercise. October 1-3, 2021 and October 9-10, 2021 Location: First weekend: RAT training area (Gallant, AL). Second weekend: Bucks Pocket State Park (Grove Oak, AL) RAT-LRT (Lightweight Rescue Technician) This course is limited to 12 students. This 5-day (50+ hours) course combines the best of RAT’s technical classes into a single course for backcountry rescuers, climbers, …
Lightweight Rescue
RAT-SAR Training Area 100 Randall Rd, Gallant, AL, United StatesTwo weekend course/exercise. October 1-3, 2021 and October 9-10, 2021 Location: First weekend: RAT training area (Gallant, AL). Second weekend: Bucks Pocket State Park (Grove Oak, AL) RAT-LRT (Lightweight Rescue Technician) This course is limited to 12 students. This 5-day (50+ hours) course combines the best of RAT’s technical classes into a single course for backcountry rescuers, climbers, …
Search & Rescue Tracking
RAT-SAR Training Area 100 Randall Rd, Gallant, AL, United StatesOctober 15-17, 2021 Location: Gallant, Alabama This class is designed for Search and Rescue/ Public Safety personnel who may be tasked with locating people who are missing in a wilderness environment.  Students will be instructed in the methods and tactics of tracking lost persons in varied terrain.  The class will also cover the following: Duties of the individual …
Intro To Survival
RAT-SAR Training Area 100 Randall Rd, Gallant, AL, United StatesLocation: Gallant, Alabama January 8, 2022 This 1-day class is offered to those individuals who have very limited or no wilderness survival training. It is designed to allow the student an opportunity to learn basic survival skills such as fire starting, shelter construction and other wilderness survival essentials without the stressors found in Randall’s Adventure …
Intro To Tracking
RAT-SAR Training Area 100 Randall Rd, Gallant, AL, United StatesJanuary 9, 2022 Location: Gallant, Alabama This 1-day class is designed to teach the student the basics of human tracking. The student will learn to identify track indicators, dynamics of a foot print, rules of tracking, lost spoor procedures, individual tracking techniques, and tracking team formations in regards to search and rescue. GEAR REQUIREMENTS: Hiking …
Quarterly Training
RAT-SAR Training Area 100 Randall Rd, Gallant, AL, United StatesJanuary 29-30 (Saturday / Sunday) Saturday: Response Training (Arriving at the scene, setting up command post, incident management, search practice, etc.) at RAT SAR training grounds in Gallant, AL. Sunday: Lightweight Rescue Training (Bucks Pocket State Park). Other SAR teams and members are welcome to participate in RAT SAR Quarterly Trainings. All SAR members (RAT …
AARS Quarterly Meeting
Location: Jackson County Rescue Squad:Â 404 S Cedar Hill Dr Scottsboro, AL 35768 Start Time: 0800
Single Rope Technique
RAT-SAR Training Area 100 Randall Rd, Gallant, AL, United StatesMarch 11-13, 2022 Location: Gallant, ALÂ (Please bring camping gear since we will move from the Gallant location to a state park after the first day of instruction) SRT - Level 1 This 3-day Single Rope Technique (SRT) class is designed for the beginning vertical rope practitioner (no previous rope experience required). If you're wanting to …
Quarterly Training
RAT-SAR Training Area 100 Randall Rd, Gallant, AL, United StatesApril 9-10 Â (Saturday / Sunday) Saturday: Response Training (Arriving at the scene, setting up command post, incident management, search practice, etc.) at RAT SAR training grounds in Gallant, AL. Sunday: Lightweight Rescue Training (Bucks Pocket State Park). Other SAR teams and members are welcome to participate in RAT SAR Quarterly Trainings. All SAR members (RAT …
COVID-19 STATEMENT
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the participation in group activities in which social distancing is difficult, if not impossible, is likely to result in the increased chance of exposure to the virus, which may increase the likelihood of contracting the disease. This exposure is possible through direct contact with other people, proximity to other people, and contact with surfaces that other people have had contact with. By participating in the activities, you represent that you do not have reason to believe that you have contracted the disease, have not experienced symptoms of the disease, or have been diagnosed with the disease. By participating in this activity, you represent that you have been informed of these risks and voluntarily assume the risks of potential infection of the disease. You also understand that there is the possibility that you may transmit the disease to others, even if you do not show symptoms of the disease.