I was reading the After Action Report for Civil Air Patrol's involvement in MS. Intersting read I will post a ling when I can. A couple thing came out, the ground teams while not doing SAR where acting as contact persons to get an idea of where people where still at and if anything was needed. A lot of people where effected that we never heard about and a lot of volunteers provided help that we will never hear about. I thing the focus on the goverment's response has sold short the amount of volunteer response. One comment that I did see was that for disaster operation teams must be ready to operate for ten day without support. This would include both "forward" teams and the incedent command personal.