Recent content by n5wd

To chevyman097 - Actually, it happens all the time. Unfortunately, first responders, cops, and others who call for the helicopter are often overwhelmed by the sense of "something should be seriously wrong with this patient". It's called treating the situation instead of treating the patient...

So true. One of the first days I was training as a communicator for Fort Worth PD, an officer wanted a gun run on NCIC/TCIC. At first, I thought we had caught John Dillinger - the resulting printout was about three pages (8.5x11) long and in the end, not one of the guns matched what our...

Dad was in the Air Force - a flight engineer/crew chief on C-130's, always going somewhere or other TDY (temporary duty). He and a loadmaster on one of their TDY's to Vietnam had to jump out of the aircraft and provide ground security with their M-14's and .38's while they waited for a...

Maple City Woodsman said: Yet another attempt to put people into 'boxes'. I think we ALL tend to put OURSELVES into boxes a lot of the time, just to figure out how it all relates to us in our own lives. Me? I don't have the money, time, patience, or inclination to be a collector - see ya at...