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Meeting and Training Schedule

2008

All meetings are held in the Benton County Public Works Day Room, just east of main office at 360 Avery Drive at 1900 unless otherwise noted. Weekend events are generally held at various locations. For an interactive map, click here.
In general, Unit business meetings, with more advanced trainings, are held on the 1st Tuesday of each month; Trainee level trainings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month and Field practices are held on the 3rd weekend. Executive Board meetings are on the last Monday of the month, in the Law Enforcement Building. A few days have been changed to work around holidays.
All members, including Trainees, volunteer to do 1, preferably 2 trainings. Teaching is a great way to learn!!! With three choices most months, there are plenty of topics to go around. Send your selections to the Training Committee Chair.

January, 2008
Date	Type	Topic	Instructor	Objective/Description
8-Tues	General Meeting	Litter rigging for snow conditions	Freund	Packaging a patient, rigging a litter/sked, and transporting in snow conditions.
16-Wed	Training Meeting	Anchors, Mechanical Advantage, and system operation in snow conditions.	Wood	White board description of system setup and use in snow conditions, use of various types of snow anchors with system, "jobs" unit members perform while running system in snow.
26-Sat	Field Exercise	Snow anchors/system	Killian, Meeham, Shechter	Setting anchors in snow and running system in snow. Emphasis on multiple iterations of setting up/running complete system.
29-Tues	E-Board Meeting	-	-	-

February, 2008
Date	Type	Topic	Instructor	Objective/Description
5-Tues	General Meeting	Tour of Corvallis Regional Communications Center	King/Hendrickson	General meeting in ECC of LEC. Members only.
17-Sun	Medical Support	Cherry Pie Road Race (bike race)	Shechter/Dagata	Shifts 9a-12p, 12p-3p. Medical support near finish line.
20-Wed	Training Meeting	Mountain weather/Snow Shelters/Survival techniques	Gradison	Overview of common winter weather situations at altitude. Review of snow shelter building techniques.
23-Sat	Field Exercise	Winter Navigation	Davis	Putting together January's meetings for a full mock winter mission exercise.
25-Mon	E-Board Meeting	-	-	-
28-Thurs	Special Event	BCEM Awards Banquet	n/a	Corvallis Library. Short CMRU mtg to follow. Members only.

March, 2008
Date	Type	Topic	Instructor	Objective/Description
4-Tues	General Meeting	Unit History	Freund	Lecture on the history of CMRU.
6-Thurs	Special Event	Benton County SAR Class	Wood / Linn, S/J	Instruction Envrionmental Injuries and personal SAR equipment.
15/16-Sat/Sun	Field Exercise	Snow crossing of McKenzie Pass	Clunes	Overnight traverse of Hwy 242 from Sisters gate to gate near Hwy 126.
19-Wed	Training Meeting	Self Rescue	Meehan	Review of methods for self rescue in rock and snow situations. Escaping a loaded belay, backing up an abseil, ascending a rope, passing knots while lowering/raising a subject.
31-Mon	E-Board Meeting	-	-	-

April, 2008
Date	Type	Topic	Instructor	Objective/Description
1-Tues	General Meeting	Knots for pulley systems and unit approved knots.	Ellinger	Types of pulley systems, knots used, forces acting upon, knot passing.
12/13 - Sat/Sun	Field Exercise	Mock Mission/snow	Crawford	Hayrick
16-Wed	Training Meeting	Review of unit medical equipment	Crawford	-
19-Sat	Recert	Rat Recert	-	Mt. Hood
26-Sat	Special Event	CH47 Chinook Training	-	1000-1400 hrs Hood River. Bring full rescue pack. Attending: Meehan, Killian, Clunes
28-Mon	E-Board Meeting	-	-	-

May, 2008
Date	Type	Topic	Instructor	Objective/Description
6-Tues	General Meeting	Crime Scene Preservation	Shechter / Fienman	Learn definition of crime scene, how to secure a crime scene, chain of evidence.
10-Sat	Special Event	Mac Forest Ultra 50k	Shechter	Medical/Communication Support
17-Sat	Field Exercise	Skills Workshop	Lee	-
19-Mon	E-Board Meeting	-	-	-
21-Wed	Training Meeting	Personal Vertical Systems	Linn, S.	Annual practice with personal vertical systems in truck bay.

June, 2008
Date	Type	Topic	Instructor	Objective/Description
6-Fri	Special Event	Summer Social	n/a	Summer evening gathering/dinner.
15-Sun	Special Event	1042nd H60 Intro/Hoist Training	-	0900-1600 hrs Salem. Bring full rescue pack. Attending: Hoy, Meehan, Clunes, Killian
18-Wed	Training Meeting	Local geography/intro to new ELT DF units.	Hoy / Shechter
21-Sat	Field Exercise	ELT field exercise.	Hoy / Shechter	Mary's Peak
30-Mon	E-Board Meeting	-	-	-

July, 2008
Date	Type	Topic	Instructor	Objective/Description
1-Tues	General Meeting	Truck Inventory	Davis	Truck clean-out, organization, and repack.
16-Wed	Training Meeting	Highline Classroom	Dagata	-
19-Sat	Field Exercise	Highline/Lewisburg Saddle	Dagata	-
23-Wed	E-Board Meeting	-	-	-

August, 2008
Date	Type	Topic	Instructor	Objective/Description
3-Sun	Special Event	1042nd H60 Intro/Hoist Training	-	0900-1600 hrs Salem. Bring full rescue pack. Attending: Davis, Heilman
5-Tues	General Meeting	Rock Practice Prep	Heilman	-
16 / 17 - Sat / Sun	Field Exercise	Rock Practice / Steelhead Falls	Heilman	2-day rock practice. Emphasis on edge work, having all members go over edge with litter, pick-off practice.
20-Wed	Training Meeting	Nutrition/Personal conditioning for mountan rescue	Bryenton	Tips on personal conditioning, food ideas on rescues, ways to be better physically prepared for missions.
28-Thurs	E-Board Meeting	-	-	-

September, 2008
Date	Type	Topic	Instructor	Objective/Description
2-Tues	General Meeting	Glacier Travel/Anchors for ice climbing/crevass rescue	Gradison	Review of glacier personal and team travel, types and techniques of ice anchors, and crevass rescue methods.
6/7 - Sat/Sun	Field Exercise	Mt Hood/OMRC Field Exercise	Dagata	-
17-Wed	Training Meeting	Tracking and Northwest Search Dogs	Shechter / Tracker / NWSD	Review of Tracker and NWSD Team functions, how to work with other reams, what we can do to support their capabilities during missions.
30-Tues	E-Board Meeting	-	-	-

October, 2008
Date	Type	Topic	Instructor	Objective/Description
5-Sat	Special Event	CH47 Chinook Training	-	1000-1400 hrs Hood River. Bring full rescue pack. Attending: Hoy, Heilman, Bryenton
7-Tues	General Meeting	Search planning and organization	King (BCEM)	Understand ICS positions and forms, SCORPA, POD, process for beginning a search.
15-Wed	Training Meeting	Gear circus/Trainee Update	Shechter	All members invited to bring unique or useful pieces of personal gear to share with others. Trainees bring all gear for check-off.
16-19 / Thurs - Sun	Special Event	Corvallis Ski Swap	-	Annual CMRU Fundraiser.
27-Mon	E-Board Meeting	-	-	-

November, 2008
Date	Type	Topic	Instructor	Objective/Description
4-Tues	General Meeting	Unit Elections/Mission startup and activation	Linn, J.	Understand job of intown coordinator and mission coordinator during time of mission startup and unit activation.
15-Sat	Field Exercise	Skills Workshop/Prep for winter re-cert.	unassigned	-
19-Wed	Training Meeting	Critique of skills workshop/re-cert prep.	unassigned	-
24-Mon	E-Board Meeting	-	-	-

December, 2008
Date	Type	Topic	Instructor	Objective/Description
2-Dec	Special Event	Winter Social	n/a	Winter dinner gathering.