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  • From: Mustang Blue <mustang_blue_wy@yahoo.com>
  • To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] MSAR trainings in central Wyoming?
  • Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:29:27 -0700 (PDT)

Same question, different state.
>> Does anyone know of MSAR trainings available in California?





May God bless us all with gentle hands, patient minds and loving hearts. May
we allways be willing to learn, and to share and teach what we do know. Amen
Lona...and Metawa... www.kbrhorse.net/mgal/metawa1.html,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wy_Mustangs


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The key wording is "save a life". There are chances I might take or ask my
mount to take if a real subject is in danger but the benefit must outweigh
the risk to the rescuers. There are many classic cases where rescuers
rushing in actually slowed down rescue or evacuations in urban settings.

The question again is: Is it worth the Risk? When we are training or
evaluating riders and mounts how much danger do we need to simulate?
Getting out of a tight spot is confidence building skill as well as a
necessity in some cases.

We should make training as realistic as possible. It is accepted that we
fight as we train and we train as we fight, only tougher. We do have one
advantage in training, we pick when, where, and how much. We can also
reduce the risks in training by providing extra safety observers, on scene
EMS and veterinary care and added expertise in the form of instructors. This
reduces the risks.

The basic standard should set expected performance levels. If possible we
should provide a training guide on how to meet those levels and possibly how
to evaluate whether the training objective has been met. This is pedagogy,
not rescue or search.

I often "wimp out" on training missions--while riding on ice or in
thunderstorms may be required sometime, neither is a training condition with
acceptable risk factors even with Borium on his shoes.

Irv Lichtenstein





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