I'm inclined to agree with jester. SAR assets will be scarce at best. In some locales, there may be a limited capacity resembling a terribly scaled-back version of what we have today. Airborne SAR is hard to imagine in more than a handful of locations. Surface-based SAR would require large-scale coordination and functioning assets--both of which are in short supply in North America by late 2000. The Sealord of Jacksonville, Norfolk, the Puget Sound enclave, and a few other locations might be able to conduct very limited SAR. Very few others will have the means or inclination to expend carefully-hoarded resources.
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