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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant
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Policy...while on duty we have to be armed.
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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant
If I were conducting SAR in your neck of the woods I'd rather be toting an M-4, one mag no extras. (It would stop any bad ass mountain lions that wanted a piece of you.) Then I'd want water, water and more water. A GPS, compass, topo maps, radio, spare batteries, more water, first aid kit, pen flares and a signal mirror. OK, maybe some food...... I'd also want all of this on my back, in a little pack, not on my front.
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Good points, but admin freaks out if we walk around with our rifles and there isn't a "good reason" (good reason= potential bad guy with a weapon
) Also for us Patrol guys we are only on searches for 4-10 hours then the SAR Coordinator and his volunteers get rotated in, we go back to normal duty.