 NASPAC's River Search and Rescue dropped in for some training on the Patuxent River February 9th. Yesterday we did some really awesome training with what we do here on base. We're out there with a small boat called QST. We basically practiced putting the swimmer on and off the boat as well as our SMTs so that we can prepare to help out a fisherman or somebody in the water if they need assistance from us. The SAR Swimmers worked with boat crews from Atlantic Targets and Marine Operations at PAX to provide real-world training in lowering search and rescue personnel on a moving craft. So the scenario we practiced yesterday was we had one of our training dummies with a call of rescue randy. We see what they're having some kind of injury on the boat. We went in, we lowered our rescue sewer down, lowered our SMT down, our medical tech. They assessed the patient, put him in a basket, brought him up, brought the swimmer and the SMT back up and we see where they're taking him to the hospital. And this is actually an absolutely vital, just like last year there was a guy that had a heart attack on a boat out here. They didn't call us because they didn't know we could do this. So this is why we want to do stuff like this. We want to get the word out that NASPAC's River Search and Rescue is coming up to the task. For NASPAC's Patuxent River, I'm Patrick Gordon.