PowerPoint Downloads
A Division of OSSA Manual On-line
cooscountysheriff.com/OSSA
Attention !!
The PowerPoint Presentations listed here are based on the 2005 OSSA Criteria for Certification
They may or may not be appropriate for instructing trainees for the 2008 OSSA Criteria for Certification.
New PowerPoints will become available as soon as time permits.
Bona Fide Instructors are encouraged to submit outlines or finished PowerPoints geared to the new standards.
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a PowerPoint presentation, email us. We can get together and get something
working.
Joe Doman, Webmaster
OSSA@cooscountysheriff.com
Click here to download a MS Word file of the 2008 OSSA requirements for certification
Click here to download a MS Word file of the 2008 OSSA SAR Performance Test
Click here to download a MS Word file of
the Coos County Sheriff's SAR Requirements
Any Oregon county Sheriff may post his requirements here.
Email the requirement as a MS Word attachment to
webmaster@cooscountysheriff.com.
NOTICE: In addition to passing the
requirements listed above, the trainee must pass an eighty-eight question
written test.
By its very nature, a written test should not be available before the actual
test.
If you are a bona fide instructor and wish to have a copy of the written test,
have your SAR coordinator at your
Sheriff's Office email
webmaster@cooscountysheriff.com
For old times sake, you can download the 2005/06 OSSA requirements below.
Be warned though, they are out of date!
Chapter I Legal Issues
Qw1 toQw6 The entire chapter 1
-- Legal Issues is covered in one PowerPoint presentation
Ch 1 Legal Issues Quiz (Password Protected)
Ch 1 Legal Issues Answers
(Password Protected)
Chapter II Survival
Bonus Item Twelve Essential Survival Tips -- (Our thanks to Peggy Peirson of Benton County Sheriff's Office)
Chapter III Radio Communications
BONUS
Basic Search and Rescue Communications by Sgt. Tygh Thompson
A comprehensive look at SAR communications.
Chapter IV Land Navigation
W1 Identify
the different types of maps used in SAR. * 5.1 mb
Ch 4 Qw1 Quiz (Password Protected)
Ch 4 Qw1 Answers (Password Protected)
W2
Identify the three primary coordinate systems. * 791 kb
Ch 4 Qw2 Quiz (Password Protected)
W3.
Identify a location on a map using Township, Range, and Section. * 8.3
mb
Ch 4 Q3 zipped quiz & answers --
password protected
Teach as a set
W4
Identify a location on a map using Latitude and Longitude (degrees, minutes,
tenth of a minute). *
W12
Coordinate system most commonly used by aircraft / maritime vessels.
(R
Ch 4 Qw4 & Qw12 Quiz (Password
Protected)
Ch 4 Qw4 & Qw12 Answers
(Password Protected)
W9 Identify
the advantages of UTM. * 1 mb (Quiz included)
It is recommended that W9 be taught before W5 but as a set)
W5. Identify a location on a map using UTM. * 2.25 mb (Quiz included)
Teach as a set
W6
Identify the difference between True and Magnetic north
*
736 kb (Quiz included)
W10. The definition of declination
W7 Identify the relevance of Datum and coordinate systems. * 684 kb (Quiz included)
W8. (See Chapter 5)
W11.
Determine the elevation of a point on a map.
W14 Determine the contour interval on a map without a margin.
* 793 kb (Quiz
included)
W12 (Referred to Qw4)
w13 How to relay Latitude /
Longitude coordinates (degrees, minutes, tenth of a minute). *
1.15 mb (Quiz
included)
W14 (Referred
to Ch 4 Qw11)
Chapter 5 GPS Operation
(Note: Questions from other chapters are integrated here.
Since
they are about GPS, it seems right to list them here.
Please try to teach the presentations in the order listed below
From Chapter 4 Qw8 Advantages & Disadvantages of GPS
Ch
4 Q8 in MS Word password protected
Chapter 5 Qp2 to Qp8 OSSA criteria for
GPS
Quiz and Answers under construction ----(Anybody want to try their hand?)
BONUS
Getting to know Garmin GPS 12 & 76 1.6 mb (Quiz not applicable)
Qw6. Animals
Bonus Item: Basic Outdoor Survival Brochure (Our thanks to Peggy Peirson of Benton County Sheriff's Office)
Chapter VIII Search Techniques
W20 Elements of
visual detection techniques
1.55 mb (No quiz available)
BONUS ITEMS
Twelve damn good reasons to wear insect repellent * 1.4 mb (Quiz not applicable)
Lost Persons Characteristics 66 kb (Quiz not applicable)
Comic Relief -- Food 1.04 mb (just for laffs)
Travel Kit Brochure (Our thanks to Peggy Peirson of Benton County Sheriff's Office)