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EDSAR 12 Codes©

Brevity on the radio is a sign of professionalism. Therefore, El Dorado SAR has created a series of codes to cover the most common SAR situations. These codes, known as the "12 codes", are as follows:

12-01
  Be advised, your GPS coordinates place you in Uraguay.
12-02
  Your radio worthless. Set it on fire, make smoke signals.
12-03
  Have found subject. Please advise us of our location.
12-04
  Subject insists on being rescued by opposite sex.
12-05
  Subject demands rescuers bathe before approaching further.
12-06
  Subject has stolen litter and is tobogganing down hill.
12-07
  Subject has obviously never been within 100 miles of this &^%$# place.
12-08
  Subject is begging not to be put back in litter a third time.
12-09A
  What was your last message?
12-09B
  I was asking you what your last message was.
12-09C
  Well, I asked you first.
12-10
  We've kicked over a wasp nest and are now 4 miles from last location.
12-11
  Searcher stumbled into old cesspool. Send fire hose.
12-12
  Searcher carried away by mosquitos. Do you wish direction of travel?
12-13
  Searcher hurled chunks in helicopter. Team bailing out.
12-14
  Flare away.
12-14A
  Flare away. Scratch one helicopter.
12-14B
  Flare away. However, car window was rolled up.
12-15
  Is this a sketch of the subject, or a drawing of Mr. Potatohead?
12-16
  _________ is picking on me.
12-16A
  I was not! __________ started it.
12-16B
  Not!
12-16C
  Did so!
12-19
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  Sure, this photocopied, enlarged, scanned, and faxed driver's license picture is perfectly clear.
12-20
  "Here" is not an adequate location -- please elaborate.
12-21
  If I knew where I was, I wouldn't need you to bring me a map, would I?
12-22
  Witness reports seeing subject enter gingerbread house.
12-24
  The ELT beacon is directly south, west, and north of us.
12-25
  Our computer-generated map only shows zip codes.




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