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  • From: "irvin lichtenstein" <ilichten1@verizon.net>
  • To: "'Mounted search and rescue'" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] MSAR Rider 10 Essentials List
  • Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:14:44 -0400

There have been lists developed over the years based on each organization’s experience in the terrain and weather it covers. Even if you can assume the complete kit was with a rider the missing pieces when found are not usually with the rider. Some items are individual and at the same time universal.

Search related:

Comfortable, well fitting tack and clothes for weather and forecasted weather

Something to carry equipment in—saddlebags or fishing vest, etc.

Watch, Map and compass with ICS assignment paperwork

Radio and spare battery

Interaction with other riders on task (2-3 others usually)

Personal:

Spare glasses, prescriptions, medications

Spare “parts” for tack—laces, straps, safety pins

Neckrope

Food/water

Camera/plastic bags for evidence

Wilderness first aid consistent with your training level (assuming 2-4 hours care prior to reaching road and assistance)

 

 

 

From: msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of T'mi Finkle
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 8:38 AM
To: 'Mounted search and rescue'
Subject: [MSAR] MSAR Rider 10 Essentials List

 

Howdy folks,

I am seeking input from our group of experienced MSAR Riders for assistance developing the NASAR Mounted SAR Tech-III, 10 Essentials list that will be carried by a mounted searcher.   It is likely this list will be commonly accepted as the (minimum) uniformed baseline, for what is carried on the MSAR responder.  We are also looking at the list with the items order of importance, so please feel free to provide comments.  If you would like to substitute something on this , please suggest what to remove. 

 

NOTE: This list does not to replace the SAR pack and/or gear that is commonly carried on the horse, but is the 10 essentials to be carried by a rider while on a SAR Mission or during training. Ten Essentials List are being developed for most specialty SAR responders 

 

1.       One 20 ounce bottle of water or water bladder

2.       One lightweight rain poncho or a large plastic leaf bag

3.       One space blanket—the foil ones stick in the heat, the cloth backed ones are too bulky.—Use the yellow disposable ones typically found on ambulances.

4.       Two energy bars –watch for nut allegeries

5.       Fire Starter (not in most public forests—too high a fire risk)

6.       One basic first aid kit—concentrate on trauma, bleeding

7.       One folding knife or multi-tool

8.       One whistle

9.       One Compass

10.   Two small flashlights—one mini-mag or penlight from first aid kit should suffice

 

PS: Please think of this list as if a horse returned to the Command Post without its rider.  The IC will have some knowledge of what items will be in possession of the rider, which will aid determining with a survivability factor of the missing rider (the term rider is used since the responder would become another missing subject of the mission)  Since every searcher is deployed as a member of a task team of 3 the other two will either be recovering their companion or reporting the accident as per protocol on the medical plan.  This would trigger a rescue effort but this contingency should have been preplanned by logistics (which includes medical care for searchers) and would rarely rise to an IC crises, more like a routine event for the safety officer to investigate.  We have looked for riders who went off when their mounts came back to the barn but they are usually the original subject.

Thank you,

 

T'mi

www.trotsar.org




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