The Chief wrote:THERE IS NO CHARGE IF NASAR THEN AFRCC dispatches a military unit with an official NASAR TASKING #!
NONE!
I don't know if they still do it, but the army units from Fort Carson used to do a lot of SAR work around Colorado Springs. During one evac that I was loosely involved in, they told us that it was considered training time for them. If they weren't doing real SAR work, they would end up running simulations, which cost the same as real rescues.
My father who was Air Force SAR for many years backed this. If they didn't have real rescues to do, they would have to invent something.