NESA 2008

[sarflyer]

Short article here:

http://www.therepublic.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=111&ArticleID=120909

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Sounds like there'll be more time in the field

[0]

Groovy.  Thank goodness no one on post was injured.

[maverik]

That's weird I live by attebury and I didn't here anything about a tornado.

[RiverAux]

I heard about it on either NPR or ABC national news.

[SJFedor]

That's weird I live by attebury and I didn't here anything about a tornado.

Well then, investing in a weather alert radio might be a very good idea for you. 

[mikeylikey]

That's weird I live by attebury and I didn't here anything about a tornado.

Well then, investing in a weather alert radio might be a very good idea for you. 

Wow living in the midwest, one should absolutely invest in some sort of weather alerting device.  When I lived in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana (Tornado Alley) you could always find weather radios in grocery stores, 7-11's, gas stations, EVERYWHERE!

[maverik]

Yeah there all over the place.

[SJFedor]

That's weird I live by attebury and I didn't here anything about a tornado.

Well then, investing in a weather alert radio might be a very good idea for you. 

Wow living in the midwest, one should absolutely invest in some sort of weather alerting device.  When I lived in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana (Tornado Alley) you could always find weather radios in grocery stores, 7-11's, gas stations, EVERYWHERE!

I sleep with mine. And if for some reason it doesn't trip/doesn't work, the sirens (3 within 3/4 of a mile of my house) seem to always wake me up.

I hate tornadoes.

[maverik]

Yeah I hear that, I always have mine on if it's gonna storm and it's set to a 30 mile radius so I know if somethings coming.

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Received through the Yahoo NESA group:

We lost our Logistics Officer and Transportation Officer from OK this year due to employment responsibilities.  We are looking for a Logistics Officer and Transportation Officer to serve on staff currently.
A CAP driver's licenses is required.  If you are interested, or know anyone who might be interested, please contact me.

We still have a few slots for kitchen helpers open for each week.  Persons filling these slots will work in the kitchen one week and may attend the other week of school without cost.  Let me know if you are interested.

> We still have some limited openings in the basic and advanced ground SAR schools and the Incident Command School for NESA due to some cancellations.  Our other schools are full.  Registration is open at:  https://ntc.cap.af.mil/ops/nesa/
> If you have trouble with online registration, forms and information can be found at:  http://ngsar.homestead.com/home.html
>
> We have found through people contacting us that didn't get acceptance packets that probably one of the boxes containing the packets didn't seem to make it through the mail.  We don't know who all was in the one box, so we are planning on mailing packet again to everyone since we have no way of telling who were the ones that got theres and who didn't.  Any of the forms or information that was in the packets are available for download at the above
>
> We still have some limited opportunities for seniors or cadets who may wish to volunteer a week in helping out in the kitchen to attend the other week of school without cost.  Contact me if you are interested.
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> If we have any senior members that would like to volunteer as staff in supervising our kitchen area with just some basic skills, that would be helpful also.  We don't have any Air Force cook teams this year due to deployments and cut backs.  Part of being an emergency and search and rescue response organization is to be able to be self sufficient when responding.  We are hoping to not only meet our needs at NESA, but to have some people who gain experience to have the capability to call upon during emergencies if needed to be capable in logistics in food service so we know our organization can establish a self sufficient base of operations.  In times of disaster, that means taking care of our shelter, transportation, communications, and food service if need be.
>
> If you registered, you can check your application status online at:  https://ntc.cap.af.mil/ops/nesa/NESAApplicantStatus.cfm
> If you registered and haven't been able to get on line to check your status or have any questions, feel free to contact me.
>
> Major Gary Brockman
> Director, National Emergency Services Academy
> 3714 N. Breen Drive
> Indianapolis, Indiana 46235
> (317) 289-6087

[Johnny Yuma]

I see 7 days of MRE's in NESA's future.

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I see 7 days of MRE's in NESA's future.

I've done that before and it wasn't fun.  I don't know about doing it for 2 weeks at NESA.  I really don't think we'll have to resort to that, if nothing else they'll probably have to assign people to KP duty.

When all else fails, improvise, adapt, and overcome.

[maverik]

that would be interesting though a SAR school with nothing but MRE's. Wonder how many cadets would stay.

[Johnny Yuma]

that would be interesting though a SAR school with nothing but MRE's. Wonder how many cadets would stay.

Most of them.

CAP cadets = Weird Kids. The kind of kid that actually LIKES MRE's.

[Tubacap]

It would cut back on the lavoratory usage costs.

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that would be interesting though a SAR school with nothing but MRE's. Wonder how many cadets would stay.

Most of them.

CAP cadets = Weird Kids. The kind of kid that actually LIKES MRE's.

This is true.  I've seen one eat the MRE out of his gear when it wasn't even a SAREX or a Mission.  He just likes the taste of them. 

[SJFedor]

I ate an MRE the other night just cuz I was hungry, and it was there. Mmmmm

[0]

I will admit some of them can be down right tasty.

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two words... pound cake