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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Filling the Gap
After completing the prior post, I realized there is something else taking place.
The document submission was completed early in the morning. This resulted in a gap. The gap was filled with the hike to the copy shop. Upon return home there was another encounter with a gap. I see Dr D tomorrow and I know she will ask me how things are going. So I need to provide an answer. Delivering this answer requires that I engage in self observation, and the creation of a summary.