Winter School Profile

Name: Bill Gibbons
Rank: Captain, CAP
Spec Ops ID: The Boss
Thousand Yard Stare Rating: infinity
Quote: "You guys know what you're doing, right??"

"Hawk Mountain Ranger School presents challenges from the first minutes of the activity. Personal comfort is displaced by the need to complete the mission. This idea of "service before self" is infectious and stays with the student for years."

"Since everyone knows that there is not a life at stake during most of the school, the only way to simulate the stress of a real search mission is to limit the amount of time that the student has to complete the everyday tasks. Remember, every additional minute that it takes for a team to get organized is one less minute that the victim has to live. It doesn't matter if you can compute lat/long, UTM, or operate an ELT with your eyes closed, if you can't get ready in a timely fashion the victim may die."