“Special partners” during search and rescue training

Recently, the Border Guard Vocational School No.24 sent cadets and service dogs to perform their internship in the Dien Bien provincial Border Guard Command’s affiliated posts. This was the first course giving chance to the participants to practice search and rescue missions in border areas. The team in Muong Pon Border Post has ten people, including one instructor, one team leader, one medical staff, seven cadets, together with seven service dogs.

According to Major Nguyen Van Nghia, Head of the Search and Rescue Division of the Border Guard Vocational School No.24, who is also the instructor of the team, right after the team arrived in Dien Bien province, Muong Pon Border Post created favorable conditions for them to perform their assigned tasks.

On the occasion, the team focused on search and rescue training in the context that landslides, rocks, collapsed construction happening in the border areas where Muong Pon Border Post is stationed. After three months of internship, the team participated in joint patrol with border troops of Muong Pon Border Post among the shared borderline, contributing to protecting the national sovereignty over border areas, while helping locals develop economy and prevent forest fire, among others.

The People’s Army Newspaper would like to introduce some images during a training session of the team.

According to a training scenario, a serious landslide has just occurred in Pa Cha village, Muong Pon commune, Dien Bien district, Dien Bien province, causing three houses to collapse and burying two people. After receiving the information, the post’s leader assigned the team to the scene for a search and rescue mission. In the photo, Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Dinh Thuan, Commander of Muong Pon Border Post assigning task to the team.

Cadets and service dogs quickly moving to the scene

The landslide area is located about 5km from Muong Pon Border Post. Due to the complicated terrain, the team conducted both training and long-distance march to increase troops and service dogs’ endurance.

After approaching the scene, the team's leader assigns tasks to cadets and service dogs. A few days ago, the team sent troops to hide some shirts and pants in the training area for the service dogs to sniff.

Cadets lead the service dogs to the landslide area.

In just a moment, the dog detects the location of a buried victim, continuously scratches the ground to signal its handler.

Raising and placing a flag to mark the location where there is a signal of human

Another service dog detecting signal of buried person

Break time of cadets and service dogs

After the training session, the service dogs have their health checked and receive their food.

Translated by Minh Anh