How proud I am of YOU, First Child!
I'm so glad Kevin is back and you had a chance to get together to reminisce about Alaska!
Canteeners, while this is an old photograph of my 6'5" 'baby' when he was a policeman, he now is a Physician Assistant, and a Professor teaching wannabe PA's at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, working on his PhD.
The Civil Service Snow Bunny mentioned stems from the fact in June of last year - before 9/11 - he volunteered to be on a South Florida Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT).
It is a federal program to deploy medical professionals to disaster sites - floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. and he was scheduled to go to Ground Zero last November, to care for the ones working in the rubble.
Because there were enough teams in the Northeast they stood down, but he is on call 24/7.
(If he responds to YOUR location, should you be in need, give him a hug for me!! LOL)
Well, I'm in Florida so I sure will hug him if I see him (no offense, but I'd rather not see him if he is responding to a disaster).
My husband is a P.A. too! He spent some time in MedProf's neck of the woods after Hurricane Andrew helping out down there. He was a Firefighter/Paramedic at the time... Small world here on Free Republic! GG
Mom (LadyX) asked me to explain the picture of me in Post #206. That's actually a recent photograph. I'm wearing a US Public Health Service uniform for my Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT). She also wanted me to tell you about the passage of important legislation signed recently by President Bush. HR3448, among other things, affords personnel serving on DMATs uniformed service status and affords us the same protections as reservists with regard to employment and reemployment rights. We're happy about that because there have been instances where DMAT members have lost their jobs at home while deployed to a disaster. DMATs are part of the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) under the Office of Preparedness, US Public Health System (http://ndms.dhhs.gov/NDMS/About_Teams/about_teams.html)
I've created a couple of websites as well at:
http://www.nova.edu/~stmartin/DMAT/fl5dmat.htm and
http://www.nova.edu/~stmartin/DMAT/AirandSea.htm.