From: Horrocks, Aaron (ACHb@pge.com)
Date: Fri Sep 19 2003 - 15:20:45 PDT
"It's Bob's Big Boy! He's back!"
"Actually sir, Bob's Big Boy never went away, they have always been around offering quality meals at good prices in a nice family atmosphere" - Austin Powers movie
I didn't mean to say that the Civil Defense ever 'went away' it's just a mere fraction of what it used to be. What I meant was to bring it back to the same force and status that it once was, instead of creating ANOTHER similar organization to do similar things. There's a Civil Defense installation out were I used to live, so I knew that they were still operating to some efficiency.
When I got my jeep she was painted with many thick coats of white paint and had a CD logo on the rear (where the 6" star should be) and what looked like an old state of California logo on the other side on the rear. When asked by a couple people in the combat sim club that I belonged to if I was going to re-paint it, I said "Nah, I'm going to leave the jeep white with the CD logos, and just drive around yelling at people to 'PUT OUT THAT LIGHT!' =)"
I took pictures before I painted over it. - I have those around here somewhere
Aaron Horrocks
1952 M38A1
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Subject: Re: [MV] 20 years from now
Why not just bring the Civil Defense back?
Um...excuse me but the Civil Defense never went anywhere, thank you. They
(we, for I am a member) have always been around, are still around, and
continue to be a mis-managed, ill-equipped, under-funded and largely ignored
force. We answer to many names.* Your local fire department is technically
part of CD, as is FEMA, haz-mat response units (both paid and volunteer),
various auxiliary police units, most telephone company trucks and many of
the workers who drive them, and the list goes on.
Through budget whittling, complacency, and ignorance on the part of
government and the general public, the once-important CD force is a mere
shell. It surprised and saddened many of us who hold CD credentials when we
heard all the hoopla about Gov. Tom "Deer caught in the headlights" Ridge
getting his cabinet position. The "homeland security department" was already
there, just waiting for someone to notice it.
MV content: I once had an M37 that had the CD sticker on the doors, under
several layers of paint. It had belonged to a local ambulance service.
* My (former) telephone company ID card, along with my Auxiliary Police ID
and my Fire Department ID all had/have the CD symbol affixed.
A P Bloom
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