Response Times For Spec Ops Teams

[x635 4,066]

What do you consider an acceptable minimum or maximum response time for a special operations team (trench, rope, collapse, etc)??

This includes all required tools with sufficient properly trained manpower. Also, setup time should be factored into response time.

[houlidsa 76]

This is a little broad of a question but I will just suggest that you remove set up time from the response time. A haz mat team may be on scene hours setting up, testing & probing before a course of action is even selected let alone put into action.

[x635 4,066]

I'm referring to the time from when the team is requested to the time the team is on scene, in addition the the standards I mentioned above.

Surely, some more people must have an opinion on this.

[Monty 35]

I think a lot depends on the capability of the team, size required for deployment etc. NYTF-2 had, and may still have a time of 2 hours to being on the road. Now, in theory, this is a team of 50 people that could be away from base for 48 hours.

Presumably a local team would be much smaller, fewer people, smaller response aera etc - and a quicker response time. Step up to a reagional team and it's different again.

Now regardless though - every team should set an expectation so that people know ahead of time what to expect. I also think that the 'time' should not include travel time, obviously ther's a difference between travelling a few miles and even travelling a few tens of miles in WC.