Reply #13: Historically, that was the role of the "Militia"

[Coastie for Truth]

and if we look at Pre-Revolutionary History (and Pre-WW I history) that was the National Guard - and the Volunteer Fire Department (which, if you go the Fire Fighter Museum in Philadelphia, near Independence Hall, you will see was called the "Fire Militia").

What is the "MILITIA" today?
1. Your Volunteer Fire Department and Volunteer EMS (which, with "Mutual Assistance Agreements" and the "Incident Command System" can be effective in medium disasters).

2. Your community, your family and neighbors -- if trained.

1) - This is 16-20 hours of training. You are not enlisting in or joining anything. This is training from (usually) your local Fire Department.

2) - This is a collection of Disaster Services - everything from "Earthquake Proofing" and "Blizzard Proofing" and personal survivl, through Automatic Electronic Defibrillator and First Aid and Pet First Aid to the bureaucracy of disaster services. No obligation to sign on as a volunteer or go to New Orleans if you just take the courses.

And in the Earthquake Belt we tie these together through our proven "Incident Command System."

In the "Earthquake" and "Forest Fire" belts we have the Incident Command System - that co-ordinates everybody from the Campfire Kids through the Civil Air Patrol and Coast Guard Auxiliary and Urban Search and Rescue Corps and Wilderness/Mountain Search and Rescue Corps and Citzenc Corps/CERT to local Police, Fire, EMS, the National Guard, and the NGO's (Red Cross, Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul, Southern Baptist Mass Feeding). It's called "Incident Command System" -- and it works. The key to the "Incident Command System" is that anything beyond serious enoughy to call 911 is just too big fou you to handle alone. And, the Incident Command System brings some degree of order outof the chaos surrounding an accident or disaster.

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The Incident Command System is a proven system - and it works - and we have a National Guard (which is NOT the Federal Military).

So, get up off your your couch, put the "remote" down -- and get yourself trained and qualified -- the life you save may be yours - or MINE.

And, if my 64 year old, severe osteoporotic, 90 pound wife can take the and the - inluding First Air, Automatic Electronic Defibrillator, and CPR -- you can too.