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- From: Karen Nesbitt <spanishequines@yahoo.com>
- To: msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [MSAR] MSAR-Riders Digest, Vol 86, Issue 3
- Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 14:12:24 -0700 (PDT)
ADDING MORE>>>> to what I commented to about below and drawing specifically from the first search I did....If you would have required to have a physical for every member of that search.. hmmmm... just how does one propose to set the standards for an entire community of hundreds if not thousands of the volunteers that showed up. There were hundreds if not thousands of volunteers on that search, only 8 were on horseback, myself included, but had there been any restriction particularly in the realm of any physicals or medicals required....hmmm you would probably have told several hundred folks not to be there. YOU simply will not stop members of famnily, members of community or what ever facet from doing a what I woudl almost have to term a civic duty when a call goes out. About the only
people you will stop, if they show up and go through the check out line would be a criminal when you check your ids at the door. Only 4 were volunteer FD and I can be willing to bet a good half of the horsemen there might not of passed a rigerous physical. So while many of us in this community are busy trying to update credentials, that is well and good, but if it was your kid, your parent your family, who you gonna stop?
Just saying because if it was one of my own, about the only ones I would want stopped at the door would be a criminal.
But then that just might be me.
Topping that what disturbed me most was the such few numbers of MSAR were present yet alone the few mounted FD or mounted LE. There was no mounted LE, only 4 FD and 4 mounted volunteers (actually we had five from the mounted, but ONE was horseless so he manned the base and radios to the rest of the group...) and this was a high profile case, all state call, to anyone who was able, willing and wanted to. The call more
than likely reached other states through the media. But that was the mounted group that cleared the line that day. As I recall, the only thing done in line was they asked you if you were mounted, flying or pounding ground and if you were of driving age, they ran your number. Then they gave you your area.
Temperatures that day were so hot they called the helicopters in because it was too hot to fly them and the mounteds and pounders searched in triple digit figures. The horses were pulled in after over 2 hours of search. Dont recall on the groundpounders.. the heat was gastly and they were not in our area.
As a search goes on, the longer it goes, the more searchers could be required. So who you gonna bar when it comes to a community of volunteers on a physical?
My guess, no one other than a damn criminal unless you got one smart enough to slip through the cracks.
And, you did have others searching that were not cleared through the line, so to all those farmers and neighbors searching fields while they worked, I can bet no cop went to each door to stop search the thousands of volunteers that did not go through the line.
Just my humble opinion.
Karen
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