UDF – Urban Direction Finding Team Training
To become certified in Urban Direction Finding Team, you must receive the commanders approval for:
- Prerequisites
- Familiarization and Preparatory Training
and complete the following training:
- GES 116 – General Emergency Services
- Complete Task O-0010 – Prepare Urban DF team Individual Equipment
- (See 24 Hour Pack List For Equipment List)
- Complete Task P-0102 – Conduct a Phone Alert
- IS-100 – FEMA Introduction to Incident Command System
- IS-700 – FEMA Introduction to National Incident Command System
- Complete Task L-0001 – Basic Communications Procedures for ES Operations
- Complete Task L-0002 – Perform Radio Operating Procedures
- Complete Task L-0003 – Employ Appropriate Radio Frequencies Repeaters
- Complete Task L-0101 – Inspect a Vehicle
- Complete Task O-0201 – Use a Compass
- Complete Task O-0205 – Locate a Point on a Map Using CAP Grid System
- Complete Task O-0214 – Determine and Plot an Azimuth on a Map
- Complete Task O-0218 – Locate Own Position on a Map Using Terrain Associaiton
- Complete Task O-0220 – Move from Point to Point in a Vehicle Using a Map
- Complete Task O-0301 – Determine Distress Beacon Bearing
- Complete Task O-0302 – Locate a Distress Beacon
- Complete Task O-0303 – Deactivate a Distress Beacon
- Complete Task O-0304 – Triangulate on a Distress Beacon Signal
- Complete Task O-0420 – Perform an Airfield Search (Ramp Check)
- Complete Task P-0101 – Demonstrate the Ability To Keep a Log (Use ICS Form 214)
- ICUT – Introductory Communications User Training
- GES 117 – Emergency Services Continuing Education – Geared Toward Ground Teams
To become fully certified, you must attend two Urban Direction Finding Team Exercises to participate in and be signed off on by a Skills Evaluation Tester.