Yes, I'd like that. I'll be arriving late Wednesday night, departing Sunday afternoon, staying at the conference center lodgings. I'll be meeting with TROT mid-morning on Thursday to help with last minute details for the MSAR demo in the afternoon. The MSAR Discussion is scheduled for Thursday evening. I'll be teaching Friday and Saturday in the Homeland Security and SAR Management tracks. Catch up with me when you can. See you in VA!
We will have to agree to disagree on how your lines were drawn. Personally, I do not care how big CA is, it's still one State and is under the control of one State level Emergency Management Agency. The States of VA and NY operate under two completely different systems, thus representing different exposures. I still ask the question, of those person's scattered around the Country, how many committee members are from States East of the Mississippi River?When NASAR started communicating with people who previously expressed interest in being part of the team to develop MSAR standards, and mentioned a possible 2 year volunteer commitment, most people disappeared. Apparently most expected to get paid somehow. I had to go recruiting to get the team up to 6 members.* The 2 committee members from CA, if living in a comparable location on the east coast, would be representing NY and VA. As I mentioned before, if you were to draw a line North to South through the middle of the country, 3 committee members would be east of that line, and 3 commitee members would be west of that line. If you were to draw an East-West line through the middle of the country, 3 of the 6 would be north of that line, and 3 would be south. So we're rather scattered around the country.
I'd suggest that, if structured correctly, people might be a lot happier to join an MSAR organization than NASAR. In theory joining NASAR is a great idea. In practice, far less so. In my experience, the MRA is a lot better at taking care of its membership, communicating with its membership, and setting and testing for high standards than NASAR is. (NASAR has gotten a lot better in this past year but I'm still not letting out a sigh of relief.) A well run MSAR organization could run circles around NASAR and, in so doing, might improve NASAR.
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