Friday I got an email telling everyone on the Search And Rescue Team that we where on stand by for a mass casualty exercise involving the Thunder Birds and I'm an alternate. Yesterday I was told that the team had been activated and they could not get a hold of three people from our squadron. I had to go and pretend. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. We didn't sit in the staging area nearly as long as we did for the real world accident two months ago. We got out to the flight line and where told that the EMTs had set out eight pieces of meat for us to find. It took around half an hour to find all of the meat. Total, the exercise lasted three hours.
I am now on the EET thing. They are the people that inspect people durring exercises. Apparently our office needs one so it's me. Today I got the training schedule and I guess we are having an exercise on June 9-11. Problem, I'm going to be the only IG Joe in the office, protocal is also a part of our office and both of those people will be gone then. I asked the civilian in charge and she said that she is now EET too. She'll be going through the training with me. Not sure how the exercise is going to work with just me and her while we are both inspectors. The guy in charge of the team said he isn't going to worry too much about our shop on this one since it is a phase one. I'm just wondering what if durring an exercise I'm out EETing and there is a simulated plane crash, what do I do? These are the things that people who should be figuring this out don't bother doing. Guess we'll just wait until that scenario comes up then we can all play grab ass trying to figure out what to do. Why do we exercise? When something happens in the real world we never respond the way we practice.
Speaking of it just being me and the civilian in charge for at least two weeks, I'll be the protocal chief. I sure hope nobody needs any thing important.
Question: How many squadrons/wings and jobs should I give a chance before I decide for sure to not stay in for another term?
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