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  • From: "Irvin Lichtenstein " <ilichten1@verizon.net>
  • To: "'Mounted search and rescue'" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] What are your top priorities for training?
  • Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:04:12 -0400

I have found land navigation to be the most problematic. Lack of English
can often be overcome in a field or task assignment and occasional
repetition of an order for clarity works wonders. Most people today don't
write anything down, they text it in telegraphese and then promptly forget
the context.

But if you can't be sure of where the task team went you never know if the
task was done. Transferring what you saw to a topo map is not always easy
in terrain where the sight lines are short and the landmark may be a
building that looks like a lot of other buildings.

I was dealing with Knowledge Center last night and like any data retrieval
system it was how you phrased the question that got you the results. Search
managers (plans, ops, briefer) must ask the correct question for the field
task to get the answer needed. But the field team has to know where it got
the answer for it to be useful.

Irv Lichtenstein

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