[Archers] Marshal in Charge (MIX) responsibilities and issues

[Jay Nardone]

Good evening my Brothers and Sisters of the Bow. I write you tonight with
great concern because as of today I have now been made aware of 3 separate
incidents in as many weeks of where the MIC of Archery was either not
present, left the site during the official event or left the range in the
hands of an MiT. Originally I was not going to post about this because I
thought it was an isolated issue but after discussion with my Deputy and
other DEMs, I cannot stand by and allow this unsafe behavior continue.

 

I want to remind all of you as warranted marshals, if you accept the
position of "MIC" for archery at an official event, you are responsible for
that activity at that event. You CAN NOT leave site, be away from the range
while it is open or turn it over to an MiT. This is unacceptable and is not
allowed under our rules. This is straight from our handbook;

 

Kingdom Guidelines 

 

Marshal in Charge Event (MiC) 

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This is the person who works with the Autocrat of an event and whose primary
duty is to manage all marshal activities at the event. 

No Marshal-in-Charge (MiC) will be allowed to enter the martial activities
that they are sponsoring or running.

You may not compete in the same event that you are MIC for. This means that
if you are MIC you are not fighting, shooting, throwing 

or crewing for that event. In regards to any event, you may not participate
in any aspect, and then jump out to be MiC, and then jump back in to
participate again. If you are MiC of an 

event, you are MIC the whole time. Marshal of Archery (MoA)-This is an
authorized Target Archery Marshal in charge of the Target Archery range at
an event or practice (can also be the MIC). If there are multiple 

Target Archery fields, or multiple days of Target Archery, the MoA should
have more than one MoA. A MoA must be a warranted Target Archery Marshal. 

 

I completely understand that real life happens and I also agree that real
life needs to come first. I would strongly suggest that you think very hard
about accepting the position of MIC, if something happens where you can not
complete your duties all you need to do is either cancel the activity or ask
another warranted marshal to act as MIC for the activity. In all of these
instances there were common themes that are very troubling to me; 1. The
autocrat at each of these events was not made aware that their MIC for
archery was not on site or in place on an open range. 2. MiTs were left
alone and running an open range. 3. The MIC could have simply closed or
canceled the activity, (While I would rather this not happen the day of the
event, in an emergency this would have been the correct thing to do.)

 

After discussion with these MICs I was really taken back because on two
occasions, the MICs were so preoccupied doing other things on site, it
simply felt to me like they had no urgency for this issue at hand and had no
intention of participating in the activity they signed up for. Again things
happen, I understand this, ask for help as it is only an email away.

 

Those of you that know me, know that I don't take safety lightly and I will
not stand for this behavior going forward. If I get word that this issue
happens again in our Kingdom I will suspend that MIC's warrant until I am
made satisfied they fully understand and are capable of executing a safe
range that is under their control. If it continues beyond that point I will
be forced to pull their warrant permanently. I will not waiver on this
issue. For my part, I will update the TA handbook to include more direction
about the expectations of an MIC and their responsibilities as well as an
MiT's.

 

As always, please please ask any of us if you have questions, if you need
help or are confused. Also as MIC's you need to communicate with your
autocrats and marshals that are helping you. If you need to leave site, make
sure the autocrat knows and either shutdown the activity or appoint an MIC
who is fully warranted and competent to do so. 

 

In Service,

 

Janyn

 

 

 

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