The Bill Brand Story - Geoffrey Frost
Geoffrey Frost – Former Senior Sergeant Victoria Police Search and Rescue Squad 1987-1998 The Bill Brand story is easy to tell but there’s a lot of ground [history] to cover. I had a lot of material to condense. I will start in 1976 when I joined the squad after completing the Diving Aqualung Diving Course, Bill was then the Senior Sergeant in charge of the squad, soon to be Inspector. In reflection, by the time Bill Brand was promoted to Inspector in [1978], he was without Peer in Australia and I am confident in saying he probably had no Peer in the World. He was Mister Search and Rescue. His leadership incomparable, no one came close. The great breadth and depth of his operational experience is unsurpassed, unmatched and legendary. He had an uncanny ability to precisely match the situation with a measured response of the right resources in the right place to win the day. This was stuff not in any text books. He was not a proponent of throwing hoards of untrained
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