Mounted search and rescue

["Mike Dillard" <DILLARDM@mustang.k12.ok.us>]

Because our Nations' States' Emergency Management Officials have
recognized NASAR as that standard. As for my state, Oklahoma's State
Emergency Management and DoD i.e. Homeland Security Officials have
established this as the recognized standard. Civil Air Patrol which is
an arm of the Air Force, and under DoD hierarchy in the establishment of
Homeland Defense, which obviously includes all facets of ES, has made
that distinction.
Rather than argue the futile point of who gets to be the authority, we
need to be finishing up the program so all interested ES personnel can
access this standardization to assist them in organizing our individual
groups. 
If you have spent as much time on this project as many of you have,
including myself, I can only say thank you for your effort to put us all
on the same page for training and organization.
Thank you NASAR and committee members.

Mike Dillard, Capt., CAP
Emergency Services Officer
Mounted SAR Commander 

>>> una@lanl.gov 10/20/03 12:47PM >>>
Suzanne Anderson wrote:
>some folks might be missing the point I believe Jorene is trying to
>make here: 
[...]
>one may still find value in using the [NASAR] standards that have
>been (and are being) written as a MODEL for one's own organization
>and situation.  

I think we all do get the point Jorene is trying to make.  Really!

But why should any agency credit NASAR as the model for their own
standard?  NASAR's standard will itself be modeled on pre-existing
MSAR standards.  The primary reason I see for advocating any NASAR
standard as a model is that somehow NASAR may be perceived as a
primary source of authority.  But I think this serves more to lend
NASAR authority, than to borrow authority from NASAR.  


>You COULD, however, point out that your own team's standards are
largely
>(or loosely) based on NASAR standard XYZ, to provide a point of
reference
>to your audience (th agency that would call you out).

Were I to adopt such a standard, I might point out how it is or is
not similar to other standards, perhaps including NASAR standard XYZ.
Would I describe such a standard as "based on" NASAR standard XYZ?
No, because that is unlikely to be true.  Any future standard for
MSAR is unlikely to differ much from the better standards that are
already in use.

        Una Smith
        Santa Fe County Sheriff's Posse, in New Mexico
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