I had a debreif with my rescue team this weekend following a major deployment. They are always interesting experiences often with some fascinating and surprising learning points coming out the mission. I guess it is the nature of certain types of search and rescue that actual real world experience is actually quite hard to come by so there is always a huge amount of learning to be done.

One personal positive to come out of the debrief is how much I have learnt just from other peoples posts to this knowledge exchange. The site has been running now for less than 6 months and yet, in some areas, I’ve completely changed the way I look at things, in my opinion for the better. Every post that someone makes to the knowledge exchange brings something new, something different and something personal that we can all learn from.

I’d personally like to say thankyou to everyone who has posted to the knowledge exchange. The ideas I have learnt since it started justify the approach of a cross discipline, cross team place for exchanging all the ideas and solutions we have in the search and rescue community.

Thanks for all your support.

Ian