When they find the track, their first action is to keep everyone else well away from it too much information can be lost by friendly forces trampling all over vital signs. The trackers try to estimate the number of terrorists, the age of the spoor, and the direction they ve taken. These details are relayed back to central headquarters so that it can be used with information from other sources, and so widen the overall intelligence picture. The man who first found the track will lead the hunt that follows, and he won t give up that position until he loses the trail. Then the casting-about operation will begin again until contact is reestablished, and a new lead tracker takes over.
Trackers work in pairs whenever they can but in silence.
This is a very vulnerable operation that could easily be the subject of an ambush. Talking and smoking are not allowed, and noise must always be kept to a minimum. Footprints are the most important tell-tale. But you can tell their direction of travel by checking which part of the indentation is the deepest the deepest part shows the direction of march. The depth of the indentations will tell you whether they were carrying heavy loads or not, and so will the length of their stride.