tarps and ponchos

[N6RVT]

I move that this thread be transferred over to the "Hysterical History" discussion as "in the past" is the only time CAP members are ever going to be deployed overnight in the field during actual missions.

FEMA standards for ground teams were established about two years after the last revision to the CAP ground team manual, which is now 17 years old.  I get the impression either CAP standards were going to be updated to reflect the new universal standards or we would just drop our own standards in favor of just training to FEMA specs like we do with the various ICS courses.  And then (surprise) nothing happened at all.

It may not be the case of they don't want to use us, but we are not trained to the standards used by literally everyone else, so they CAN'T use us.

https://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nims/508-8_search_and_rescue_resources.pdf

[Eclipse]

It may not be the case of they don't want to use us, but we are not trained to the standards used by literally everyone else, so they CAN'T use us.

https://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nims/508-8_search_and_rescue_resources.pdf

Of course they can, they just don't need to, and the relationships don't exist to change that.

Besides, as far as I understand it, "FEMA", for the most part, doesn't deploy assets, they just support
agencies that do, so if CAP accepts a job, however it types its resources, FEMA says "OK", and writes the checks.

I realize it's more complicate then that, and that FEMA does have an operational directorate, but
that how everything I've ever been involved in that had FEMA around worked.