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This episode was made possible by Dustin col Grove, Colonel
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C McAdams, Sr. Colonel Phillip Smith, and other Patreon members.
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Support us at patreon dot com. Forward slash State Defense Force.
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I want to move over to search and rescue because
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the search and rescue component of the Texas State Guard,
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I feel is pretty big, mainly because I always see
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it in the news. You guys have a repel tower,
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and I always see your guys training and constantly training
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and then getting going from master search and rescue training,
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and it's it's very it seems like a very big program.
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One question I did I do have is are the
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search and rescue units that you have heavily utilized during
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the natural disasters like hurricanes, flooding, and even during non
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emergency situations like to localities that have missing persons.
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Well, it's it's so there's there's actually three parts to that.
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So you're searching, rescue, search and recovery, and those those items.
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One is our boat teams, UH, the other is DYE team,
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and the other is the lands are or in search
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and rescue, and so all three are tied together, but
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each have a different mission set. UH. Search and rescue
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on the land. I think it was just a couple
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of months ago that some of our team was actually
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in one of the state parks conducting actually this was
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I think last summer, was conducting maneuvers and practicing and
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they came across the person in distress and literally the
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guy had was going down for Edith's Austin and was
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able to conduct MANUVACU evacuations. And so even if in
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our training we're making a difference. And so as far
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as any natural disasters, tornadoes, hurricanes, periodically those will be
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called out. Harvey was the last time that we really
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utilized our boats, however, down on the border. Although we're
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not in the boats on the border, they're heavily utilized
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and we were part of that team as far as
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providing providing some of our boats down there and some
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of the training and things of that nature, working with
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the National Guard
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This episode was made possible by Dustin col Grove, Colonel
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C McAdams, Sr. Colonel Phillip Smith, and other Patreon members.
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Support us at patreon dot com. Forward slash State Defense Force.
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I want to move over to search and rescue because
5
00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:18.480
the search and rescue component of the Texas State Guard,
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00:00:18.559 --> 00:00:21.960
I feel is pretty big, mainly because I always see
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00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:25.480
it in the news. You guys have a repel tower,
8
00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:29.679
and I always see your guys training and constantly training
9
00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:34.159
and then getting going from master search and rescue training,
10
00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:39.079
and it's it's very it seems like a very big program.
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00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:43.560
One question I did I do have is are the
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search and rescue units that you have heavily utilized during
13
00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:53.799
the natural disasters like hurricanes, flooding, and even during non
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00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:57.920
emergency situations like to localities that have missing persons.
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00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:02.200
Well, it's it's so there's there's actually three parts to that.
16
00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:07.200
So you're searching, rescue, search and recovery, and those those items.
17
00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:12.280
One is our boat teams, UH, the other is DYE team,
18
00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:15.159
and the other is the lands are or in search
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and rescue, and so all three are tied together, but
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each have a different mission set. UH. Search and rescue
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on the land. I think it was just a couple
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of months ago that some of our team was actually
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00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:32.760
in one of the state parks conducting actually this was
24
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I think last summer, was conducting maneuvers and practicing and
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they came across the person in distress and literally the
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guy had was going down for Edith's Austin and was
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able to conduct MANUVACU evacuations. And so even if in
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our training we're making a difference. And so as far
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as any natural disasters, tornadoes, hurricanes, periodically those will be
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00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:05.560
called out. Harvey was the last time that we really
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utilized our boats, however, down on the border. Although we're
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not in the boats on the border, they're heavily utilized
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and we were part of that team as far as
34
00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:21.120
providing providing some of our boats down there and some
35
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of the training and things of that nature, working with
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the National Guard
