Okay, I'll chime in. My full time medic partner and I were on a cardiac arrest. He was attempting to insert the tube, when I noticed that he had the tube upside down with the stylete heading into Pt's throat. All I did was whisper to him that the tube was upside down, Later after the call he thanked me. I did not "save" his ass.
With some of the EMT's I've seen in my area, the slogan should read "Paramedics save EMT's asses"
Oh yea, I will not buy one of those damn t-shirts "Paramedics save lives, EMT's save paramedics".