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Record 1 2014-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Search and Rescue (Paramilitary)
DEF

A search for a subject [who] is not in the area.

CONT

In the search and rescue community, a bastard search refers to looking in all the obvious places and assuming the person wasn’t really lost to begin with (or found his own way out and simply went home).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherche et sauvetage (Paramilitaire)
DEF

Recherche d'une personne qui ne se trouve pas dans le secteur visé.

Spanish

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