How’s your damage control training program? Is it ready to face the likes of what caused this damage? Ready for something that lasts longer than a standard GQ battle problem – measured in days not hours or minutes? Oh and about the PRT program too…
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The first Navy Aegis ship to be sent to Davey Jones’ locker now rests on the bottom of the Pacific, done in by a combination of missiles and gunfire. The decommissioned cruiser Valley Forge was sunk as part of a Nov. 2 target practice on a test range near Kauai, Hawaii, according to the U.S….
It has been said that in a world intricately and inexorably connected, individually, we seem to draw apart from one another. That those connections we have are tenuous, virtual and of little lasting substance or effect. Like spiderwebs on the wind, we connect and (temporarily) bond with whatever object we come in contact…
Under the circumstances, thought it was time to resurrect this golden oldie…
(click on the banner — you will need Flash plug in) Yeah, it’s a front for a pharmaceutical, but at least this one is workplace safe….
Keep your friends close and your tigers closer…? OK – ‘fess up out there, who else has can relate to this?
’twill be limited posting this week as YHS is on travel to the front range of the Rockies. Would that it were for pleasure — instead three days in a windowless building divining the indecipherable… Flightdeck Friday may be a little early (like Thursday) for here and the Daily Briefing, but it shall be posted……
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On a prosaic note:
Having been in a couple of fire damaged edifices, I hope the photographer was wearing some sort of respirator, the residual stench must have been something else.
I (when I was a CE) took a tool box into a fire damaged computer room once for a brief inspection, then left. I placed that toolbox in the back of my station wagon. For the next 10 years (I had that car 12), on humid days, I could still catch a whiff of smoke.
That poor photographer probably had to burn those clothes and replace his shoes. Just hazards of the trade I suppose……
Joe:
Concur. When we went back into the Pentagon after the fires were out we had to wear a mask and protective clothing because of the toxins released by the fire and by the mold (which was quite varied, ranging from the spotted black variety that had climbed halfway up the walls to the roped variety hanging from the overhead). For a long time afterwards you still smelled the smoke and to this day the whiff of smoke one gets from a doused campfire, BBQ grill, etc. brings memories of that awful time crashing back on the present. Ditto the air “freshener” that was deployed in coffee-can size canisters around the building…
– SJS