[EAS] Sufolk Co, NY EAS mishap

[Bill Ruck]

Clay,

I apologize for being grounded in reality.  My days of live 
broadcasts of the Grateful Dead (professional users of recreational 
drugs) where reality wasn't are long over . . .  (But I do have some 
great stories to tell.)

When I spoke out at the NAB meeting and told the group (and the 
panel) that my Naval experience was training and training and 
training but as a result we all knew what to do when something bad happened.

The Admiral smiled.

We all recognize the importance of training.  As Art Botterell points 
out there is a limited amount of grant funds and when people have a 
mindset that grants = new equipment (a/k/a "toys") training gets left 
behind.  There might be some training on Day Number One but the 
critical training is continuous.  Everybody needs to know what to do 
when the Once In A Lifetime event happens.

I will now get off my soap box.

Bill Ruck
Curmudgeon
San Francisco

At 10:46 AM 9/7/2016, you wrote:
>Bill Ruck wrote -
>
>The most common question after the presentation was "Who is going to pay for
>training my dispatchers?"
>
>And that is the major issue with any warning system.  Training is expensive
>and most of the time not included in any grant.  So when something happens
>(like Fire Island) nobody really knows what to do.
>
>DAMN IT BILL - When are you going stop looking at these issues logically ?
>
>You'd think that a person with a military back ground would understand that
>you are not going to have good results with a weapon unless you train the
>person how to use it.   Seems to me that this has been SOP with military
>gizmo's for a very long time.   Perhaps some things fell off the wagon in
>the transition to other branches of government?
>
>Clay Freinwald
>The older Curmudgeon North of you