Mounted search and rescue

[Slybarbara@aol.com]

Irv, thanks for the explanation. I had an idea it might be as you  described, 
but don't like to make assumptions.  
 
This exercise might be better held as an auxiliary training to our regular  
wilderness/mock sar training - it sounds a little time consuming and would  
interfere with some of the sar conference classes which members want to take  
(when our members are not working off their 12 hour work obligation in 
exchange  
for the registration fee).
 
I've proposed our unit set up a similar exercise for night time so our  folks 
could experiment with light equipment and see, in a controlled setting,  what 
it takes to search in the dark. 
 
We'd set up clues: clothing, mock victims, small items at various places  
along a given trail and send teams in to perform a search, have teams report 
as  
they make finds, mark the locations on their maps, do a debrief on the  
results and turn it into a learning game.  
 
Let me know if your unit has done anything like that.  
 
thanks
Barbara