Crossword

Think you know everything about SAR?

Try your hand at this crossword puzzle.

Good luck!

By LT Elisha "Grudge" Clark, USN

Across:

5. Situation Report

8. ______ spacing; in a search pattern

10. Equipment for double lift

11. Diving related injury

12. Hand-held light; re-establish visual contact

13. RCC Norfolk; city in VA

16. Fixing a severed hoist

18. SAR gear storage; in aircraft

21. Acronym; patient evaluation

22. Type of search pattern; specific coordinates

23. SAR _____ (not SAR capable)

Down:

1.Recovery for hypothermic survivor

2.Designated by SMC

3.Cervical _____ (spinal immobilization)

4.Type of deployment. Staying on the hoist

6.Personnel ______. Procedures in JP 3-50

7.Sucking chest wound dressing

9. Lights sans smoke

14.SAR Readiness- ready for launch

15. Light (as in weight, not brightness) in the water

17. _______, Breathing, Circulation

19. MOI (the m)

20. Opposite of calm

23. Type of litter