<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/6b/Lt_Laura_Alicia_Hicks.jpg)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name:</strong></td><td>Major Laura Hicks (MSF)</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>Control Center, Security Chief's Office</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td> Lt. Devlin Painter</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td> SaR planning</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/>Laura nodded, "One of the reasons why the units we have are automatic is because we have non-military personell here in an environment that is only slightly more friendly than the bottom of the marianis trench and they really don't appreciate that yet."<br/><br/>She looked back down at the landscape, "I'll ask Col Cotter to go out with me and drop a suit someplace in the search area. The emergency beacon will be activated just like it is suppose to do if the suit is breached or life support reaches critical status." She looked back up at Painter, "You are aware of the time frame involved, right?"<br/><br/>She didn't want to give out too many details of the operation, but he needed to know some of it to keep it from becoming a real SaR.<br/><br/>She leaned back and looked at Painter for a moment at the question, "We only have 8 official security personell, and at least 2 of them are on the next shuttle. I'm anticipating that during an actual search and rescue operation that we'll need the extra boties. Draw anyone that you think will be useful, but no less two to a team and one of those have military training. That includes using any air and ground assets; use them." The emergency beacon and strobe had a life of about 12 hours, but Laura knew that the odds of anyone surviving that long were remote. "Use your best judgement on who you draft... we do have some limited capacity. The problem is that the beacon isnt very powerful to begin with and we don't have the ability to do more than give a general area right now. The objective is to give our people a taste and some practical experience. As we go, more exercises will be more complicated and range further but 2 klicks is a good starting point."<br/>