The Board of Directors

The Alpha Team Board of Directors was chosen and elected to provide our organization with the best possible representation of professional abilities, and skills for both search and rescue, leadership, incident command and public relations. Our board or directors works with Alpha Team in an advisory role, to provide guidance to the organization and to promote the capabilities of search and rescue teams like ours throughout the United States of America. We are proud to introduce to you our Board of Directors and honored that they are willing to assist us in accomplishing our goal of being the very best.

Dr. Dion A. Petaros

Mrs. Jocelyn Whitfield

Mrs. Chris Salisberry

 

The Alpha Team Members

Alpha Team is formed from a group of highly motivated and dedicated volunteers and professionals who have devoted their lives to saving others. The time and efforts that we put into training ourselves, our team and our dogs is tremendous. Our dogs are our own and we train them because they love to work, and we constantly marvel at their capabilities and their desire to accomplish the tasks that we put before them. It takes a very special type of person to operate in search and rescue, and below are some of the pictures from our team trainings, demonstrations, and social events where you can see us, and our dogs at play. Thanks for stopping by, and please check back often for updated photos!

 

Owner/Handler: Steve Barden

Operational Air Scent K9: "Circe"

NASAR SarTech II

GEMA Certified Air Scent K9 Team

 

 
 

Owner/Handler: Paula Chambers

Operational Air Scent K9: "Madison"
NASAR SarTech II, SARTECH III Air Scent and HRD,
Certified Handler: Georgia Body Recovery Team
GEMA Certified Air Scent K9 Team

 

Owner/ Handler: Pam Nyberg

NASAR SarTech II, MLPI

Operational Human Remains Detection K9 "Jamie"

GEMA Certified Human Remains Detection Search Team

Trailing K9 in training "Bodi"

 

Owner/Handler:

Paul Ruszczyk, Team Treasurer

Human Remains K9 in training "Barney"

NASAR SarTech II

 

 

Susie Braswell

NASAR Evaluator, SarTech I, MLPI

Apprentice Mantracker

National Registry EMT--Intermediate

Wilderness EMT

 

 

Tom Madison Team Support Specialist

NASAR SarTech II

Wilderness First Responder Certified

 

 

Randy Cates

Air Scent K9 in Training: "Zena"

NASAR SarTech II

 

 

Sherri Schwartz; RN

Trailing K9 in training "Clue"

NASAR SarTech II

 

 

Owner/Handler: Grant Juneau

Human Remains K9 in training "Elvis"

NASAR SarTech II

 

Owner/Handler: Cheryl McCullough

Air Scent K9 in Training: "Graeson"

NASAR SarTech II

 

 

Jim Greenway ; Team Support Specialist

NASAR Instructor, SarTech I, MLPI, First Responder

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Owner/Handler: Stuart Samples, Team President

National Registry EMT-Intermediate

NASAR SarTech II, MLPI, K9 SarTech III; HRD, Air Scent

Certified Handler: Georgia Body Recovery Team

K9's: "Kona" and "Denali"