[Ansteorra-missile] Need Authorizing Marshals

[Wes Duke]

Pug Bainter wrote:

>Robin Allen (robinbjornsborg at yahoo.com) said something that sounded like:
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>>   At Gothic last weekend we had 4 heavy fighters who were interested
>>in getting authorized as combat archers. Trouble is we had no archers
>>who were warranted to authorize. Patrick Michael and Ulsted were both
>>there and said they could take care of it but I need to follow up on
>>that. This needs to be looked into as it is difficult to for some fighters
>>(especially out in the Western Region) to get to some events and they
>>may be waiting a long time for an event where they can get authorized.
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>This is major problem. There are very few authorizing marshals and
>even fewer CA authorizing marshals. This is roughly proportional to the
>number of fighers to CA combatants. The process of how to get authorized
>is quite clearly laid out for many months now and folks that do not have
>someone local to them (or who knows their abilities well enough) they
>should contact the authorizing marshals to make arrangements. If they
>don't know who they are, they should contact the Regional or Kingdom
>Archery Marshal.
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>Now that being said, I've only had one person from the *Northern* region
>contact me about combat archers getting authorized in the Western
>region. This was at the last minute even.
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>I've only had one or two people contact me about marshals out there which
>I told them we could work on but it wasn't something that they would be
>able to do without field training. You don't just learn all the rules
>and safety measures in an hour.
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>The Western region has problems with archery in general and CA in
>specific. There is not any driving forces out there with the experience
>to resolve this problem. When there is no activity in the region there
>is not likely to be anyone who *can* authorize due to a lack of experience.
>It's a bad catch-22, but not one that I can easily solve and I
>absolutely not do it by authorizing people I have never seen do the job.
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>Btw, I had full intention of being there but I was unable to make it
>due to my health. I had also thought Arcus Fearghus and Arcus Ironwyrm
>were going to be there.
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>Ciao,
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Due to mundane issues namely, gas prices and the fact I have been sick 
for over a week, I could not attend.

Arcus Fearghus MacKenna