Mounted search and rescue

["T'mi Fi" <tfinkle@erols.com>]

Irv,  

Thanks for the information.  However, since you have given direct 
reference to the MSAR team I command, I must request that you retract 
your original "more operational experience in house than any other group 
has to date" statement, as it will take several years for your new 
organization to match the operational, logistical, and planning 
experience that TROTSAR has accumulated while continually serving the 
mid-Atlantic region, as a public service volunteer equestrian unit since 
1992.  Until your team becomes operational, it has been the TROTSAR 
Mounted Team who has and continues to be called by the PA State Police 
to perform Mounted SAR function for the Southern tier region of your 
State, which includes your 5 county region.  If you want to limited your 
original comment to MSAR teams within the immediate 5 counties that have 
no established MSAR resource than I withdraw my request.  

Additionally, please keep in mind that Chesapeake Search and Rescue Dogs 
and the Susquehanna SAR [both Maryland based] teams are located less 
than an hour from the greater Philadelphia area and they have the 
highest SAR standards and experience of any SAR team in the mid-Atlantic 
region, registered (federal) USAR Task force teams excluded..    

I realize that you are proud of your team's accomplishments, but please 
use caution when making comparisons to other (current) operational SAR 
teams.  


Tomi'
Commander
TROTSAR Mounted Team
www.trotsar.org

IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN wrote:

> There are no other mounted in the immediate metropolitan area (5 counties),
> TROT to the south being the next in that direction and Middle Creek to the
> west. I remember bringing my horse down to train TROT in the beginning.
> Middle Creek lacks the formal organization required in this area.   The
> other organization is primarily ground and while apparently well funded is
> not responsive and no longer participates in regional or statewide SAR
> organizations.  
>
> When we go operational (hopefully very soon)we will have
>
> more operational expertise in house than any other group has to date in the
>
> area. 
>
>
> Irv Lichtenstein