Supposedly coming down the canal is a new & improved version of AUXSAR. Apparently they did away with all the tide & current calcs in San Francisco harbor and it is a little more like the real world, unless of course, you happen to have San Francisco harbor as your AOR.

Anybody heard rumors/facts/conjecture/speculation/allegations about this?

The update to that was posted in the N-Train Reports thread in the post dealing with the report from "T" - Nat Training.

AuxSAR has been renamed AuxSCE. That is an acronym for Auxiliary Search Coordination and Execution.

Here is a repost of the relevant section of the "T" Report to OpComm for N-Train.

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1. xxxx xxxx has been appointed to the position of Branch Chief-Search Execution, BC-TAE. He has completed the SC&E course and is a qualified lead instructor for the course. His first major assignment is to complete the development of the final examination questions for the AUXSCE Course.

2. The final release date of the AUXSCE Course will be influenced by the current budget restrictions we are experiencing. Because of these circumstances, a release date of the 2nd Quarter 2008 is most likely.

So the course is there but Not Ready For Prime Time due to budgets and looking like LeRoy Brown "with a couple of pieces gone".

If you are AuxSCE instructor the Aux has an email list you can subscribe to.

We had a thread on the subject, AUXSAR course no more...., last August.

Sorry 'bout that.
should have searched before posting.

Tanks for the info.

If you're in 11N the AUXSCE trainer's class will be held in conjunction with the PCA training fair next month. 2 weekends, check the Calendar at the D11N website

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Originally posted by Jack_Smith:
Supposedly coming down the canal is a new & improved version of AUXSAR. Anybody heard rumors/facts/conjecture/speculation/allegations about this?

I know one of the principals who went to Cape May? for Train the Trainer. Reports are it's an excellent course.

Me too, I'm waiting for her to give the class to us unwashed. Hopefully soon as the T the T stuff is over with.

I completed the AUXSCE Instructor course out in Portland just before NACON last year. I thought the course was a vast improvement over the old AUXSAR -- with greater emphasis directed toward the SAR operator. As soon as they get the budget funds to publish and stock the course materials, another D8CR AUXSCE instructor and I will be availale to schedule and present the program within D8CR.

As soon as they get the budget funds to publish and stock the course materials,

Paraphrasing an old saying:

For want of a budget, the book was lost;
For want of a book, the instructor was lost;
For want of an instructior the Auxie was lost;
For want of an Auxie, the boater was lost and never found.

FL, I agree. Currently taking the old one not knowing when a "budget" could be expected.

The Instructor from the National SAR School has posted the entire AUXSCE Instructor and Student course materials on the "moodle" site that the AUXSCE instructors have access to (yes, there really are trained Auxiliary instructors out there). The AETC also indicated in an email a couple of days ago that the course materials are ready to go to the printer. Information on how the materials will be stocked and accessed will be forthcoming.

So, in the interim -- Auxies are welcome to continue to take the AUXSAR specialty course if they do not want to wait for the availability of the AUXSCE materials.

I'm sure this has been said somewhere, but what does the "SCE" stand for in AUXSCE? Why not just keep the name, which is descriptive and easy to remember (and say), and just update the materials? They don't change the name of the math class when they start using a new book....

SAR Coordination & Execution (SCE). They do call the math class a different name -- when it is a different course...

It still doesn't seem like enough of a content or purpose change to justify the name change.

They say, "don't sweat the small stuff". AuxSAR will probably be called AuxSAR for years if not decades to come, regardless of what Nat Aux calls it. Partly because AuxSCE is an unpronouceable acronym.

How many members do you think are aware that AuxNav hasn't existed for years? The real name of the course is AuxACN and has been since either 1999 or 2000. The name change occurred after a disasterous revision to AuxNav. The revision was so bad it got ripped to shreds on the old Member Forum. The Aux after blowing over $100K on the revision pulled and dumped it. They quickly decided to use the BCN/ACN textbook for the course and officially renamed it AuxACN. But almost everyone still calls it AuxNav - a pronounceable acronym which AuxACN is not.

BTW - if the Weekend Navigator replaces BCN/ACN for the public, will it also replace it for AuxACN/AuxNav? If so will the new AuxOp Nav course be called AuxWEN?

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Originally posted by RiverAux:
It still doesn't seem like enough of a content or purpose change to justify the name change.

Ask the National SAR School... they are the ones who developed and presented the course... (taking an existing USCG course and modifying it for the Auxiliary). Given the usual tone in this forum, it could be viewed as a positive that it was not an AUX creation.

If anything, the new course gives webforum members something to gripe about...