Mounted search and rescue

[pennbo@verizon.net]

 

 Can't speak for others, Karen, but I do not get paid. Not one tiny penny. For anything. If we're lucky we get lunch while deployed. Everything else- training, trailers, feed, vets, uniforms, etc - is on my dime. I do it because I want to give back to my community. Why are volunteers sometimes problematic? YOU tell the family that we didn't find their missing family member until it was too late because volunteers had messed up the tracks and we couldn't follow them, or they destroyed the scent so the dogs couldn't, or they'd gotten themselves into a dangerous situation so that our resources were spent extricating them instead of continuing the search. Are all volunteers bad? NO, but they should also know that they are not TRAINED to do the job and might want to ask what jobs they CAN do that would help.

I wouldn't want an untrained volunteer doing surgery on a family member- and often searching for a missing person requires almost as much skill.

Chris