"Objectives: (1) Provide a United States Plan for coordinating civil SAR services to meet domestic needs, international commitments, and to document related national policies; (2) Support lifesaving provisions of IMO's International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue, ICAO's Convention on International Civil Aviation (Annex 12), certain international agreements to which the United States is Party, and similar international instruments; (3) Provide an overall Plan for coordination of civil SAR operations, effective use of available resources, mutual assistance, and efforts to improve such cooperation and services; (4) Integrate available civil SAR resources into a cooperative network for greater protection of life and property and to ensure greater efficiency and economy; and (5) Enable the United States to satisfy its humanitarian, and national and international legal obligations". (National Search and Rescue Committee (US GOV). National Search and Rescue Plan of the United States, 2007, p. 3) "This Plan does not cover operations such as: (1) Air ambulance services which did not result from a rescue or recovery operation; (2) Rescues from space (although rescue of persons returned from space can be included); (3) Military operations, such as combat SAR or other types of recovery by military operations to remove military or civilian personnel from harm's way; (4) Salvage operations; (5) Assistance in cases of civil disturbance, insurrection or other emergencies which endanger life or property or disrupt the usual process of government; and (6) Operations and coordination in addition to those covered by this Plan that might be carried out concurrently with civil SAR operations on scene, such as could occur during a disaster or terrorism response situation, or an Incident of National Significance". (National Search and Rescue Committee (US GOV). National SAR Plan of the US, 2007, p. 11).