Our team (here in Maryland) conducts a horse and rider evaluation first! I feel that our Horse and Rider Evaluation is the equivalent of the MSAR-I practical skills and well exceeds the MSAR level-II. After completing the HRE, our entry level members (trainees) must serve for a minimum of 12 months, attend a 40 hour Search and Rescue Fundamentals course, be tested on numerous field exercises, obtain current first aid and cpr certification and pass a NASAR SAR Tech-III course. Once those require are meet, then they are promoted to a field team member. After including the SAR Tec-III certification into our team standards, we found out the online SAR-Tech III test does not meet NASAR's requirements for them to issue a card. That required us to find a NASAR instructor to come in and administer the SAR Tech-III test (at $40 per student), thankfully our State has a NASAR presence.3) How many other mounted teams do all the training first as opposed to rider/horse evaluation first...could we take a survey? If a significant number of MSAR units test riders/horses first, then the language of the draft should reflect this.Barbara SlyNWHSAR Vice-President, OL
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