Mounted search and rescue

["John Neff" <neffj@msn.com>]

Yes ESAR is Explorer SAR.  Most of the youth attending the SAR conference are 
not attending with their families, most are attending with the adult leaders 
of their particular ESAR post.  It is also interesting to note that the 
officers are all youth and most of the field and team leaders are also youth. 
 Those young people are so strong and so knowledgeable!  Actually when the 
schools started to not excuse youth from school for missions about 6 years 
ago, the searches during the week usually only had about 5-6 attending versus 
20 -30 previous.  Most law enforcement agencies schedule their evidence 
searches for weekends and vacations so they have help.  These missions 
include looking for murder victims.  As I said in my earlier post there is 
wonderful support from local and state agencies for post traumatic stress 
(PTS) debriefing and support.  Our state is self insured on all training and 
missions as long as the unit has a mission number.
Faye
NEWMSAR

----- Original Message -----
From: Una Smith
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:19 PM
To: Mounted search and rescue
Subject: Re: [MSAR] Minors as members


Faye Neff wrote:
>Here in WA state
[...]
>ESAR is the backbone of SAR activities throughout the state.

Faye, I gather ESAR = explorer SAR?


>Without the youth there would be little response to any search.