The team may be defunct but SAR service goes on. Mike Latti, former UCSAR officer, found the cas with his SARdog Luna.
If you want to know why an institution of higher education focussed in part on SAR, you should refer to Kurt Hahn, the founder of Gordonstoun School and Outward Bound, on his theory of rescue service.
“The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth’s inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.”
https://www.wmtw.com/article/maine-man-rescued-spending-30-hours-lost-woods/41829452
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