Me Distracting the MS IVs from 'Real' Patients

In the afternoon a group of us went over to Operation Bushmaster. Each group of five played simulated casualties so that an individual fourth year could perform a quick one minute triage. In the above phot I'm the superficially wounded individual who distracts the doc from the significant casualties. I was able to get one student to spend 80% of his time on a expectant casualty, whom is expected to not make it. Thus, the doc should spend little or no time on them in order to devote time and resources to those that can be saved. Unfortunatly all the screaming a moaning has hurt my voice a bit.
Although the rest of our platoon sat around the barracks and played cards, we've earned good karma. Now when volunteers are needed for a much worse job, ten of us can us the fact that we've already volunteered for this to not have to do the worse job.

Nic Longstreet with His Sunscreen

Nic Longstreet has put more sunscreen on. When done, he put the container in his cargo pocket. Let's see if it explodes this time.

Eton FR160

Here is my recently bought Eton FR160. Although it's a radio I purchased it primarily for the handcrank phone charger for use in the field. I don't think the electronic configuration allows the solar cell to charge the phone. other companies make pure solar cell phone chargers, but they cost much more than the $30 the FR160 costs. Although it worked fine upon initial opening, after leaving it in the sun on my balcony for the day to charge the battery, it stopped working. after some mechanical agitation, it worked again.
I can't return it now because I need it.
Two messages for Eton:
1. don't make products that don't work reliably
2. make a solar/handcrank device designed specifically to charge phones via USB.

Whole Foods Produce Goes Bad Too Quickly.

I've posted before about my lack of satisfaction with Whole Foods. Unfortunatly my local Safeway doesn't carry Tropicana Ruby Red and Whole Foods does have nice meat. Because it was convenient we also picked up some broccli. upon going to cook it about 24hrs later, bits had already started to trun brown as you can see in the above photo. We ate it anyway, and it tasted fine, but one would expect more from Whole Foods.

Buses Arrive

0640 buses arrive to take the rest of us to FIG. Moat importantly they arrived after the cafe opened so that coffee could be purchased by all addicts.

Welcome to the Army

As anyone who has spent more than a day in the Army knows, things normally work out as planned. This morning we had only two buses show up for about 160 students. Alpha Company left at 0500 since they're in the field tonight.
As our fantastic platoon leader, 2LT Dan Brillhart, pointed out the worst case scenerio, since Fort Indiantown Gap is two and a half hours away, is that the buses are back to pick us up in six hours. It's also quite likely that two more buses will appear in a shorter amount of time.
All in all not a big deal. As one of my squad members pointed out being delayed enabled him to get coffee when the cafe opened and he gets to bs with people here instead of FIG. We also still get the bus time to sleep so this, as you can see in the photo, gives us more time to make up for waking up at an evil hour this morning.

Bravo 1 2nd Squad OPORD Brief

After a morning going over troop leading procedures, we broke for a working lunch to prep the OPORD for Op Kerkesner. Random people from random squads were choosen to brief the class on specific aspects of the plan. Random tended to mean the person appeared to Dr. Burns to not have an idea what was going on. Of course the Bravo ¹Squad, in this case, Squad 2, performed well.