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Albany NY, Times Union I was hopeful when I read this story. Thought maybe some leaders out there are coming around, changing things for the better. Making this a job where we could make money. Then I read the last line.

Medics?

Was your reply supposed to make sense with that quote?

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I don't know. For a bump I thought it was kind of humorus.

Ok. Never thought of it being abbriviated, always just say "intrusion to passenger compartment." Back to Senario

I'll hit my self in the head when you answer, whats PSI?

Unless you want to live in a city with a full-time SWAT team, which are few and far between, you will have to get ON a SWAT team to become a SWAT medic. Hillbilly podunk town isn't going to pay you 40 hours a week on their payroll for the 2 calls and 12 trainings a year. Here is your path to become a SWAT medic. [*]Become edumacated on topics besides emergency care (If you read the story, many SWAT medics/docs are these guys trainers, family doctor, confidant, ect) (Life time) [*]Get a Bachelors Degree (2 - 4 years) [*]Go through the Acadamey (6 months) [*]Get hired by the department (6 months-1 year) [*]Go through department training (6 months - 1 year) [*]Put in your time (1 - 3 years) [*]Get on SWAT team (1 - 5 years of trying out) [*]Put in your time (1 - 5 years) [*]Become SWAT Medic I'm not trying to discourage you, but you have to realize, you don't just wake up on Monday and say I will be a SWAT Medic, and have the job on Friday.

Yeah, you suck. Go away. Just kidding! I would love to go over there, but I need to edumacate up and get some experience.

Oh I love the subject, but, I can't get the jingle outa my head.

This theme song

You're going to get 500 answers. Is there any specific knowledge you are looking for? What type of outdoor activities do you partake in? Honestly, if you just want some first aid reference, buy the latest copy of a Boy Scout handbook. I am being serious. There is enough in there to get you out of the woods alive.

Good Spider = Dead Spider

Anthony, or any other Califoininite, is your state really messed up as this implies? You have a county by county certification authority? What kind of impact will this have on EMT's in your state? I thought all states had a statewide registry. Has anyone here got on, or known someone to get on, a service with out a full background check?

On topic but off. The two years of college I went to, we never got a chance to make up a final. If you bombed you final, you bombed it. Sorry boutcha. So why do we let these people who don't pass their tests the first time around take it and take it again until they do? I failed my freshman spanish class, I had to take it again. There was no "well let's go back and try your tests over can we?" It was... YOU SUCK! COME BACK NEXT YEAR.

I liked it better when you withheld your opinion. You are too articulate. I also seem the be [s:d4db58c8ef]in the minority[/s:d4db58c8ef] solo with this opinion here.

So a vote for Sarah Palin is a vote against paid EMS?

Do the chapalins where you come from try to impart their religion on you? Or do they act more as a social worker? That is what I am getting at. It's a person there, seperated from your partners, your management, who knows what you job is about, and is there as a resource for you to use if needed. Now in that setting, shouldn't they ride out a few times a month, so they know what your job is? I say again, maybe this should be titled something other than chaplin to take the religious stigma away from it. But I think they should be an intregal part of any system that is assoicated with the trauma and negativity that comes from EMS and Police work. I know, Policemen have a very high suicide rate. I am curious, does anyone know what type of rate the Emergency Medical field sees?

So you don't want a department chaplain to ever do a ride-along on your truck?

Whats the difference in a chaplain and a student? At least a chaplain is a few times a month, compared to a student which is several months out of a year for paramedics.

I still don't see where you all think there is a chaplain on every ambulance 24/7.

Good thinking or knee-jerk reaction? Indy Star

I still don't see where you people are getting the idea that these chaplains are wanting to ride in the ambulance 24/7 and be untrained EMT's all the time.

Dwayne, Who said we were using the chaplains at the scene? Do you think police chaplains are useless as well? The chaplains I have dealt with at the police department I work for, don't try to impart religion on anyone they deal with. They simply work in a social setting, as a resource for the EMPLOYEES. When requested by an officer or the family, they will meet with them but their main concern is the employees of the organization. How is that wrong? Our chaplain works as a resource anyone in this department can go and talk to confidentially, they are there for our families and for us anytime 24/7. Whats wrong with them doing some ride-along's to see what the people they are there for see everyday?