Mark: Were you ever a Air Rescue Medic knocked 20 feet down the mountain by 25,000 volts of static electricity from a Breeze Hoist because you forgot to let it touch the ground first? On Mt. Rainier no less! If not, you would have certainly fit in with the guys I flew with! I've got to hand it to you - I mean ..................................... Fred At 09:42 AM 10/4/2000 -0400, Sailboat Restorations, Inc. wrote: > > Peter is correct. We flew air rescue and Search and Rescue in Washington > > at a time when the local authorities did not have access to the resources > > available to the US Military. Thus after Vietnam, MAST was born: >Military > > Assistance to Safety and Traffic. > >In some areas, there was such demand for the services of this organization >that a second organization had to be formed -- the Benevolent Association >for Traffic Extrication (BATE). Thus, if you were in trouble you had an >option: MAST or BATE. >Mark *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Oct 04 2000 - 17:55:50 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:30:32 PDT