Timothy McMeekin

Survival Instructor

History

• Joined the Canadian Military armed forces in 1989.
• Served 19 years in field Units, operating in all environments including desert, mountain, jungle, boreal forest and ocean.
• Commanded sniper and reconnaissance teams in remote locations in numerous countries.
• Retired instructor of the Canadian Forces School of Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape (SERE).
• Guest instructor at Alexander Ross Middle School in The Pas, Manitoba.
• Presented winter survival techniques at NATO flying training center in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
• Instructed on Survival and or participated on survival courses in every environment on the planet with most of NATO.
• Guest survival instructor for SAR Tech pre-selection course in Jarvis Lake, Alberta.
• Numerous mobile teaching teams (MTT’s) for air crew pre-deployment briefings prior to going over seas.

Courses

• Long range reconnaissance
• Sniper
• Master Sniper
• Senior leadership courses preparing me to lead 18 man teams into remote locations for extended periods of time.
• Emergency, Industrial, and Wilderness First Aid.
• SERE with Canadian, USA, British and German Armed Forces
• Environmental Survival in the arctic, boreal forest, desert, mountain, and ocean.
• Mountain and avalanche rescue.
• Backcountry expedition leadership.
• Small craft vessel operator.
• Mountain operations course.
• Tactical Man tracking course.