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Joel Hardin Professional Tracking Services 

Joel Hardin

After completing 25 years with he U.S. Border Patrol as a tracker in 1990, Joel Hardin began providing full-time tracking training and consultations. His tracking mentor is master tracker Albert "Ab" Taylor, to whom he credits as the inspiration for developing a progressive training program and a life-long career in tracking.

Joel has participated in many criminal investigations and missing person searches. He produced primary evidence in the "Green RIver Serial Murders", fleeing fugitive, escapee incidents and has conducted missing person searches around the world. A recognized expert by federal and state court systems, Joel assisted the National Search and Rescue Association (NASAR) and other participating institutions in developing international tracking standards and certifications.

Master teacher and educator, thousands of military, law enforcement, search and rescue trackers have attended one or more of his courses. Joel Hardin Professional Tracking Service is the culmination of thirty-five years of tracking, training and mission experience.

Col. Preston L. Funkhouser

Preston, "Pres" Funkhouser is a retired U.S. Army Colonel experienced in counter intelligence, survival, and anti-terrorist operations. Pres is a former Director of the U.S. Army's Survival Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE), Terrorism Counter Action Training Program, U.S. Army JKF Special Warfare Center and School at Ft. Bragg, N.C. and also served as the U.S. Army Attache to the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway. An intelligence advisor to the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics and special advisor for the 1994 Winter Olympics, Pres has had operational success on four continents and in seven different countries in a variety of capacities.

Now retired, Pres provides special investigative services for the U.S. Government and dabbles in private investigative work. Along with Joel Hardin, he's provided tracking training for the SERE School and other Special Forces elements since 1987.

An engaging speaker and presenter, Pres brings his unique background, training and experience to Joel Hardin Professional Tracking Services. Pres is an active tracker with the Valley County, Idaho SAR Group and participates in numerous missing person searches and crime scene investigations each year. An active member of the U.S. National Ski Patrol for 26 years, Pres is also an Avalanche Awareness and Rescue Instructor.

Joel Hardin Professional Tracking Services utilizes additional trackers and experts specific to your mission or training needs. With more than three decades of experience and thousands of professional contacts worldwide, no company offers a more comprehensive tracking service.