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The Battle of Agincourt "Band of Brothers"

"Whoever does not have the stomach for this fight, let him depart. Give him money to speed his departure, since we do not wish to die in that man's company. Whoever lives past today and comes home safely will rouse himself every year on this day, show his neighbor his scars, and tell embellished stories of all their great feats of battle. These stories he will teach his son and from this day until the end of the world, we shall be remembed. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for whoev

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Added by jdstamp on February 9, 2008 at 8:38pm — 1 Comment

$1000.00 Department Training budget

Training, 1 hour of training. what is it worth? If that training is used 1 time and saves one life is it worth $10.00 dollars, $1000.00 dollars, a million dollars, ask a persons family who's life has just been saved, how much the training is worth. Then ask your elected officials how much your Training is worth.
As Firefighters we are constantly undergoing training, classroom training, hands on training, or reading the rants and raves of ou
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Added by jdstamp on January 12, 2008 at 8:25pm — No Comments

Because there's a need

I volunteered for my fire department (all volunteer) because there was a need, there is always a need for trained firefighters, when I joined I had no firefighting background. But I was willing to train on my time and my families time. Our training officer took his personal time to train 5 new volunteers for several months to challenge the firefighter exam. After the exam the proctor stated that he had never seen a better trained group of challengers.

I believe, that it does not matter

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Added by jdstamp on September 9, 2007 at 9:29pm — No Comments

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