Wy won't my mac create an external recovery drive?

I am trying to Create an external recovery drive on a USB stick.When I tried to install the application recovery disk assistant, I get this error message:
The recovery HD on this  computer is damaged or not present.
Why do I get this message and what do I have to do to fix it? I did used recovery mode on this computer many times.

learn something new every day
then i guess it goes back to the original error, it doesn't like something about your recovery partition so, afaik, the only way to fix the HD recovery partition would be a clean install of OSX
but step back, why do you need recovery on an external drive? why not just create a [whatever OSX you want] installer yourself. this encompasses all the recovery functions plus allows you to reinstall the OS as well.

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