Mounted search and rescue

[Deb Cranford <estrail1rider@yahoo.com>]

Is there a MSAR team in your area??? You have to be affiliated with one. That also means you will have to take several online courses, pass IS-300, take your Field Team Member test and your horse must also pass a test. Before you can take the last few tests, you must be affiliated with an existing team. I have started but I had to have shoulder surgery and we are moving next year. I have met other FTL's in this state and MD...I am in western VA. My shoulder has now healed and I am starting to wotk with my horse again to see what she still might need to learn. There are a couple of books that are of great help.
Of course, if you are already a member then all that I have said is behind you. If I can help I will!
Debbie

estrail1rider@yahoo.com  

--- On Sun, 9/7/08, MSAR <msar@ibiblio.org> wrote:

From: MSAR <msar@ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [MSAR] hello! new member from east TN
To: msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Sunday, September 7, 2008, 3:30 PM

Laury Hembree wrote:
>Hello! My name is Lauryn, and I am a new member who lives in east TN. I
want to be a part of the mounted search and rescue team. I have a wonderful
partnership with my black TN Walking horse gelding, and we have logged hundreds
of trail miles, many in the backcountry of the Great Smoky Mountains, Cherokee 
National Forest, Big South Fork and surrounding parks. I know the trails well,
and would love to be notified if there is ever a search and rescue in my area of
TN, NC., KY, and northern GA. I also have a friend, Marilyn, who has joined your
group who would come with me. We both have horse trailers and can be at the
search site
 pretty fast if needed. Is there any extra training we need to take
in our area (near Knoxville, Loudon County, etc)? 
>Thanks for any information! Looking forward to getting to know you all!
> 
>Lauryn

The above was posted to MSAR-ASTM, but it more properly belongs here
on MSAR-Riders, so I am copying it here.

Welcome Laury,

Thanks for introducing yourself to us.  There are several other eastern
Tennessee riders here on MSAR-Riders, looking to form a mounted field
team.  I'll let them (re)introduce themselves.

In Georgia, each county has an emergency management agency and there is
a push underway to administer SAR within those agencies.  Georgia has 
a number of established SAR teams, however, that respond regionally or
statewide.

	Una Smith
	New Mexico

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