I was once part of a volunteer agency supporting a terrorism response agency in Ohio (pre-9/11).
The word came over the radio that it was a suspected Sarin attack. My response was that we were establishing the group's command post in Richmond. I'd let them know if that was the one in Indiana or the one in Virginia once I checked wind direction.
Not counting the news outlets or websites along the full range of accuracy and veracity, I follow multiple actual individuals' handwritten blogs. (Bot news aggregators don't thrill me.) Looking them over, many are current serving or former military and a couple are some variation of high-speed low-drag elite forces ninjas. Or just funny as all. Because life without humor is just despair. So in other words, the same folks I trusted in the military not to wet the bed, sh*t themselves, or otherwise run around like headless Nancys, are the same folks I trust on the interwebz, for demonstrating pretty much the same trustworthiness and circumspectly responsible behavior. Color me shocked.
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That was a lesson I learned 30+ years ago in the volunteer fire/EMS service.
upwind as well.
I was once part of a volunteer agency supporting a terrorism response agency in Ohio (pre-9/11).
The word came over the radio that it was a suspected Sarin attack. My response was that we were establishing the group's command post in Richmond. I'd let them know if that was the one in Indiana or the one in Virginia once I checked wind direction.
I've seen that used to describe response to a nuclear criticality excursion.
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