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[Music] [Expert Tracker: A DHS Science and Technology Web-based Training Program]

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[Wes Hoekwater] The name of the program that we teach

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is about country tactics and tracking training programs.

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[Scott Glisson] We teach them about tactical tracking
and the movements and the tactics related.

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We also teach them about the dangers at
nighttime tracking. They'll see different venues

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of water lowland swamp, intermittent streams.
They are going to encompass everything today

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in this environment. [Howard Parsons] Attracting the
sign cut is important to the Border Patrol because it's

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essential to the type of job and the mission that we do.
It helps us

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erratic and apprehend narcotic smugglers,
alien smugglers illegal

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entrance, also terrorist weapons entering
the United States. [Scott] DHS

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Science and Technology, FLETC and the
U.S. Border and Patrol Academy are

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developing an online program to supplement our
training here. [Wes] What we're teaching

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you here is like a foreign language.
If you don't use it, you lose it.

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Obviously being able to access an online
source and be able to

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review these things just to keep yourself fresh.
Another way I can see

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it being used is, most agencies don't have the
ability to send all their

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officers through this course, so they send one or two

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officers to this course that can take it back to the agency.
And they can use this online

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site as part of their in-service training for
their other officers and agents.

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[Howard] I consider myself to be a pretty good tracker.
I have been out of

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the field now for about a year or so. So it's definitely,
before going back to the

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field you think about it. You think well hey am
I going to remember these things?

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What are some of the things I need to look for?
No matter your level of tracking

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something to refresh is definitely beneficial.

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[For more information first.responder@hq.dhs.gov]

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