"Rude Dog" wrote
...... I am in the Army National Guard ..... I
need a transceiver that has a wide frequency range that can be issued to
our civilian emergency responders for commo with our land mobile units (we
cannot issue our military radios). I am looking for approximately 60 MHZ
thru 500 MHZ.

There are a number of rigs, such as Icom's IC-706 Mk 2G that'll work with
very minor mods (see http://www.mods.dk/) but you'll run into legal
complications. Your frequencies are assigned by DOD but Ham and civilian
emergency teams get theirs from FCC. We have the same problem working with
a base in my county - Our RACES Team cannot legally transmit on local
Gummymint frequencies (rigs not type accepted by FCC) nor on the bases
military frequencies and nobody'll say "sure, go ahead" cuz it's easier and
safer to say "NO!". The base fire and rescue folks can't talk to the local
sheriff, fire or EMT squads. AFAIK nobody's gone to the can for doing it yet
but ???.