Frank Gilliland wrote:
On 1 Nov 2005 22:53:47 -0800, "K4YZ" wrote in

So...you figure I can make it through EMS school but don't know how
to pick up the phone and say "Something's come up at the base and I
can't make it in..."...?!?!

More proof that you were never on active duty: frequently there are
times when you don't have access to a telephone, especially when
liberty is cancelled because the alert status of the base or unit is
raised. In those cases, outside comm is usually prohibited because of
security issues. Happened when the US shot down the Libyan jets, when
Beirut got bombed, when Reagan invaded Grenada..... Speaking of which,
I had a friend in 2/8 that I knew from MCAGCC. They were prohibited
from using the telephone several days before deployment, outgoing mail
was held on ship during transit, and even the ship's MARS station was
shut down.

But you never experienced such things because you were never on active
duty..... -or- on float.

This new information gives me insight into how Steve thinks.

We were given an amateur emergency response scenario by one of the
regulars on here. He stated the served agencies requirements and the
number of volunteers available. I said that the volunteer group could
not meet those stated requirements with available resources. Steve
said they could, and wrote a duty schedule with long periods of
uncovered and undercovered periods.

Probably goes back to his "service" days where he left his unit hanging
and thought nothing of it.

In the end, he said that I said that no volunteer group could ever
satisfy an agencies requirements, a lie like his many other lies. I
don't know about the USMC, but in the Air Force, we call uncovered
periods in a duty schedule "AWOL" and the person presently on duty just
eats it.

But I understand that some reserve units are more laid back.