*****MIRA MESA*******
Our thanks for Bradley Buffett for the excellent talk on loading your pack, and the various possibilities for getting your gear to a deployment. If you have something you would like to share with the team that would help us with our mission, please drop me a note, we'll schedule some time in an upcoming meeting.
December Team Meeting—The tenth is on a Friday, pretty much the big holiday party night for the month, so we'll take a pass and re-group in January. In January the Tenth is a Monday. I'm thinking either wound care or an ICS drill.
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T-Shirt Survey—I'm sure we've all admired some of the custom t-shirts that show up at County drills etc. Kelly Witt has assembled an excellent online survey to assess our needs and wants as a group. Please take a few minutes to go through the survey:
Your answers will be confidential, Survey Monkey is a well-established online survey engine. Please try to vote for stuff that you might actually buy, Kelly wants to take action based on your responses. If we can put together our buying power, we can get some good deals. Thanks to Kelly for spearheading this!
Continuing Education—We do not have any instruction scheduled through the rest of the year. Now might be a good time to invest in a Red Cross course, HAM training or similar. These often cost money to register, and not all will qualify as CE's, so if you are at all unsure, ask your Team Leader to check. Please give us a few days lead time to respond. In general, the Red Cross instructional classes will qualify as CE's. Here are a few guidelines worth repeating:
* A CE must be at least 2 hours long
* Instruction should cover or review materials or situations important to our mission
* There must be some method of recording attendance
* Any potential CE not sponsored by a recognized agency MUST be approved in advance
* Training required for employment is not eligible
San Diego CERT tries to be accommodating, and we want everyone to have ample opportunity for education. Again, if you are in doubt, ask before you invest.
Occasional Rant—Yes, I'm going to get on my soap box about the boot thing again, listen up. I have seen Brian Kidwell weep openly over the footwear that shows up at some of our drills. You don't want this. I'm really just talking about a good quality work boot that provides ankle support. Prices lately have been excellent, sometime as much as half-off for first quality. Might be a result of the downturn in the Construction Industry, I don't really know. You can find good boots at Sears, Marshalls, Big 5 and other retailers. Shop SERIOUSLY for these, if it doesn't fit don't get it. As for the whole deal about steel toes, sure they are great if something falls on your foot, and Firemen swear by them. But let's remember that Firemen often ride around in a big crowd-pleasin truck. We walk a lot. Steel toes are heavier, big shock. So make your own choice for what you can use, if you can haul steel toes around, by all means invest in them. One way or the other, if you have never tried it you will be amazed at how much easier it is to work a drill with ankle support.
That's all for this week, questions, comments, see your Team Leader.
-Steve
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