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Permalink Reply by Charlie OKDF on June 3, 2012 at 8:38am

ok, hopefully that will help

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Permalink Reply by Regulator, WRAM Recruiter on July 27, 2012 at 9:25am

We've now got over 700 members on our Facebook 'Page' now, and our membership is consistently growing. But we must continue to to what we've been doing to get more people aboard.

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Permalink Reply by Prophet-Messenger on June 6, 2012 at 9:20am

Member ship is not as Important as Honesty,Loyalty, trust and Morality! You may be opening a can of worms doing it this way of this you can verily be assured! Remember the spoken words; "build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door!" It needs to be applied here or your only asking for well I'll let you answer this question?

J.R.

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Permalink Reply by Regulator, WRAM Recruiter on July 27, 2012 at 9:28am

Your problem is that you can only see the negatives. I get so sick and tire of naysayers, yourself included. You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem, and from my perspective, you fit the latter category. The trolls we get are a small percentage of the whole & they can be dealt with, with a click of the button. If you can't do anything but be negative, you can be taken care of with the click of a button also.

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Permalink Reply by Regulator, WRAM Recruiter on July 27, 2012 at 10:33am

“Those that say it can’t be done should get out of the way of those of us who are doing it.” Chinese Proverb

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Permalink Reply by fidsquid on July 27, 2012 at 2:49pm

Regulator, love the idea. The Facebook friends I have are mostly Family and highly unlikely to join. They are more likely to reject me as some "Veteran gone extremist nutcase."

I am currently working on forming a unit, starting with a neighbor who reached out on the USM site and maybe two others very near by. We shall see. I need more than keyboard commandos and in honesty as a Logistics unit we need to be as ready to fill sandbags and bear stretchers as lock and load. I see a lot of emphasis on Squad-level Fireteam training and ops, pretty much nothing on what to do the month after BOB got grabbed, and less on what happens to those the field medic has patched up.

Not against using what electronic means available to increase numbers, but I have to look at who I'd be inviting. Old fashioned face-to-face for me for now. Wish you luck though.

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Permalink Reply by Phillip P. Foreman on July 27, 2012 at 4:34pm

Amen to that fidsquid. Curious though, think maybe it might be a good idea to take a "ready head count", make it public to our fearless leaders?

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Permalink Reply by fidsquid on July 30, 2012 at 3:12pm

Magnus, so far I've seen stuff on a forum here from last year Community Service Group I believe, and over on USM, things were mentioned like 2010, then died out. I put out a post over there (USM) to get folks thinking, but no concrete responses.

I'd like to put together a Logistics unit, dealing with all you mentioned and then some. It's not like such a unit would have a hard time trying out procedures with Florida hosting hurricanes and Georgia good at having big wildfires. I think a unit like that, showing up to work on sandbags, or just set up rest stations for firefighters taking pressure off Red Cross, would leave local folks with a good impression of militia as neighbors and helpers.

I'm starting off with what little I have, and with dumpster diver ingenuity I can make. We'll see how far I can take it before the next Tropical Storm comes calling.

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Permalink Reply by Prophet-Messenger on July 29, 2012 at 2:28pm

What are you talking about and is this comment for me?

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Permalink Reply by Annie Ruth on July 30, 2012 at 11:24am

Will do!

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