Archive for June, 2010

I spent about half my day today doing hoist MEDEVAC operations with another unit. They would call in a 9-line MEDEVAC over the radio, and we would respond. Depending on the patient scenario, I would either hoist in and evacuate the patient via SKEDCO and JP, or we would evacuate them via litter. It turned out to be some really good training for everyone involved, including my Crew Chief who received some extra training by giving IVs to the “patients” under my instruction.

I thought I would share a few more pictures from today as well, so you’ll find them after the jump.

Today we did some hoist training. Its a skill we train on pretty regularly since hoisting the wounded out or doing rescue is a part of our job. Generally, the medic (me) rides the Jungle Penetrator down to the site on the ground to take care of business. I’ll assess the patient, make sure they are packaged appropriately, the watch as the Skedco is raised into the helicopter. Once the evacuation is complete, I’ll ride the JP back up into the helicopter and begin the enroute care.

Sometimes this can end up pretty precarious if someone is, say trapped on a mountain, or we have to hover over wounded soldiers in combat. Even in training this can be a bit risky since we are still dealing with weather and terrain.

Anyway, one more pic after the jump.

So, if you don’t know, I own an iPad. Yes, I have one of the coolest new geek toys on the block. Not only do I have the iPad, I went all out and bought the best one they had. I use my iPad for just about everything these days, rarely touching my Macbook.

Just wondering if there are still any readers out there?

So I thought I would try out the WordPress for iOS (iPhone and iPad). I have to say it’s pretty nice for a simple posting app. Seems to handle pretty much anything I would need to do from a mobile device – posting, photos, previews, etc. It was updated tonight for the new iPhone 4′s retina display. That doesn’t do me much good yet since I have an iPad and my new iPhone won’t be here for a week or so.

So anyway, if you need a good app for quick blog updates, this would be a pretty good choice. Even if you don’t have WordPress, as long as your CMS understands the XML-RPC protocol you should be able to use most of the features.

• It's mid-June. Why am I wearing a coat and freezing? #
• Considering a move to #WordPress WP 3.0 looks good and #ExpressionEngine seems stalled. 2 years now waiting on next version. #
• Anyone wanna convert my ExpressionEngine template to #WordPress It's a simple theme, but I just don't have the time right now. pleeezzzzee? #
• Loving the #iPad for media! Rent a movie, d/l it to the iPad, plug into TV and watch. Battery drain is avg 5% per movie incl. d/l time. #
• Wife took me to #SilverGulch for dinner! Unfortunately, kids accompanied us…. #

A long time ago, I entered a contest to get a free version of a new CMS called Expression Engine. I won and promptly switched from MoveableType.  For those that have been around that long, this was during the controversy over SixApart starting to charge those who donated to MT for the new MT. Anyway, long story short I jumped in head first and built everything here around EE.