[Ansteorra-missile] From Robin

[Eadric Anstapa]

Not just Regional marshals are authorizing marshals.

I am _/*not*/_ speaking for our Kingdom Missile Marshal but here is my 
take on it.  The comments are not aimed at any individuals and are just 
based on my personal experience.

Make take is that basically the authorizing marshals are the list of 
people that the Missile Marshal has near complete faith in.  Faith that 
they will be complete and thorough in discharging the duties and 
responsibilities of the office.

Just on general principle I would suggest the following short list of 
qualifications for people wanting to be a an authorizing marshal.

1.  An _*experienced*_ Missile Combattant in good standing.
2.  A member of the SCA
3. An _*experienced*_ Missile Combat Marshal in good standing

There are caveats to all of the above. 

First and foremost you should have never been caught deliberately 
breaking or bending  any rules.  Once you are an experienced archer and 
marshal you basically shouldn't ever be cited for breaking any rules at 
all.  If you are truly an _*experienced*_ archer and marshal then you 
should be intimate with all the rules and should not be able to claim 
ignorance of them.  If you claim ignorance then perhaps you are not 
experienced enough and aren't ready for the responsibility of being an 
authorizing marshal. 

As an combat archer you should only do the things you KNOW are allowed 
buy the rules and as a marshal you only allow to happen the things you 
KNOW are allowed by the rules.  Everybody has lapses in memory at times 
and that as why when you have doubts you ask a marshal, and as a marshal 
when you have doubts you consult the copy of the rules you should have 
available as part of your marshals kit.  Lapses in memory are easily 
handled and easily forgiven, lapses in judgment are not.

Of course you have to be a member because all authorizing marshals are 
warranted officers acting officially on behalf of the SCA when they do 
the authorizations.  If you don't have a membership then you simply can 
not be a marshal.

While you have been a marshal you should have a great record of 
reporting.  That means you should have a near spotless record of 
submitting your regular reports and a near spotless record when it comes 
to submitting event reports where you act as the marshal in charge.  If 
a person can't be trusted to get your regular reporting done then I 
would contend that you likely cant be trusted to get the authorization 
paperwork done either and therefore don't need to be an authorizing marshal.

For what it is worth our kingdom has more authorizing marshals than many 
other kingdoms do.

Regards,

-EA

Robin Allen wrote:
> Ya know if you want to become an authorizing combat
> missile marshal in Ansteorra (and you really need
> to) it's your responsibility to contact your
> regional missile marshal (who is currently
> Carluccio di Baia I believe), declare your intent
> and seek their assistance in the pursuit of that
> goal.  
>
>    
>   No I didn't know that. I had been an authorizing marshal but it was pulled when the marshallate was revamped in 2004. I was told that only regional marshals would be authorizing marshals. But if that policy has changed then I'll submit my application to be an authorizing marshal. 
>   Robin
>