Local Ground Teams or Wing "Pool" Teams

[RiverAux]

our ability to brute-force things is a credit to the people involved, but it isn't scalable, nor sustainable.

Agreed to all parts of the sentence.

Unfortunately, our ground SAR team numbers are one of our greatest weaknesses at a time when they could be the fastest growing and most-utilized assets of the organization were some attention paid to them. 

What also saddens me is that many squadrons not only can't field an entire ground team at one time, but that we're really beginning to see that we have so few aircrew members that we have to pool folks to put three people in a plane.  Instead of having 4-6 members available in a unit for each seat on the airplane, which is what it takes to have a good chance of availability 7/24/365, we get in trouble if one guy goes on vacation. 

[Eclipse]

Yep.

Meanwhile the focus is elsewhere.