Awarded for completion of an ALERT Cadet sponsored, or an ALERT Cadet approved, Emergency Survival Training course that includes (age-appropriate) written exams and practical exercises to demonstrate proficiency in the following:

• Personal emergency preparedness
• Creating a survival kit
• Shelter building
• Fire building
• Ignition methods
• Distress signaling
• Water collection and purification
• Food gathering
• Open-fire cooking
• Weather forecasting
• Primitive navigation