Twenty Orange County Sheriff's Explorer Scouts spent the third weekend in January in Chandler, Arizona competing in the 2005 Law Enforcement Explorer Tactical Competition. Post advisors Deputies Dan Daniels, Kim Milewski, John Gomez and Anton Pereyra, accompanied the Explorers on their journey. The Sheriff's team competed against over 600 explorers from Explorer Posts throughout the nation. This group of Explorers were fairly new to the Post, but were very competitive in every event. Explorer Alex Sweredoski earned 3rd Place in the Male Obstacle Course. Please join in congratulating the following Explorer Scouts, who proudly and very capably represented our department:
Andrew Ha
Alan Cleveland
Alex Sweredoski
Paul Krueger
Todd Rhue
Rosie Cortez
Erik Schinsky
Mike Grijalva
Nick Harms
Carl Dossland
Natalie Vargas
Andrew Gulling
Alex Casas
Jay Jones
Alison Tornow
Rachel Samala
George Dempsey
Thomas Perkins
Jonathan Bron
Ruben Hererra
Explorer Post 449 would like to thank the following Sheriff's personnel for their assistance with the training, travel arrangements, and equipment necessary for this competition.
Captain Bob Blackburn - South Operations Division Commander
Captain Christine Murray - North Operations Division Commander
Captain Dan Martini - Training Division
Lieutenant James Lazzaro - SWAT & Transportation Bureau
Sergeant Kirk Antes, Deputy Dan Meyers & Deputy Terry Stepp -Transportation Bureau
Sergeant Roger Neumeister - Hostage Negotiations Team.
Sergeant Tom Giffin & Deputy Dave Hartman - Tactical Training Facility
Deputy Travis Unholz & Deputy Dean Weckerle - SWAT
Senior Office Supervisor Sandy Trujillo - South Operations
Patrol Office Supervisor Carol Rinderknecht - South Operations
Accounting Assistants Angie Olsen & Kathy Hayes - Travel Desk/Financial
Analyst Kathy Douglas - ASR's/Grants - Financial/Administrative Services