Saw Dr H today. It was like a vacation day. I managed to escape from the “office” and avoid all the legal paperwork. It was a great day for a walk. Sun and heavy cloud with a few spits of rain. Had two new insights.
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Category Archives: Insight
Survival
Knocked to the floor with nothing to breathe, the first thought is: Get Up and Run. This instinctive response was addressed in training. Our trainers were old navy, grizzled Chief Petty Officers with experience of everything you might possibly imagine and much that you could not.
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Seconds To Live
I am number three on an attack line consisting of 2.5 inch cotton covered hose pressurized to something in excess of 130 p.s.i. At these pressures the hose is as stiff as a tube of steel. You have to throw your entire weight into it to bend it around alley corners, or force it to descend through a hatchway to reach the deck below.
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