July 2012

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Lessons Learned Study: The Response To the 2011 Joplin, Missouri, Tornado

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I have just received a PDF from the Homeland Security Digital Library, entitled "The Response To the 2011 Joplin, Missouri, Tornado; Lessons Learned Study". This is a evaluation of the local, regional, state, and federal response to the EF-5 tornado and its aftermath. The document is unclassified and is redistributable.

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SEMA Disaster Map Books, US National Grid, Free/Open Map Resources

A Lawrence County map page viewed in Acrobat Reader on Linux

Last night at the Barry/Lawrence ARES meeting in Monett, I told people about the SEMA Disaster Support Mapbooks, a set of 1:25000 Missouri atlases, one atlas per county, using the US National Grid (USNG) Coordinate Reference System (CRS), in a Geospatial PDF format (readable by most PDF viewers with some applications providing more features than others).

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ID Cards

You will be issued LCS Auxiliary ID cards by the County. Once your paperwork is in order, you will be given a form to take to the County Emergency Management Agency and an ID will be made.

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Saluting

As this is a subject which people tend to think is confusing, it gets its own section.

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Courtesy, Formality, and Command

Although this is not a military organization, the structure and hierarchy is based on a military command structure. As a volunteer organization, no one is compelled to be a part of it, everyone's skills and input are valuable, and a paycheck is not an incentive, so off-the-field, many of our activities may be relatively informal. On-the-field, however, we are an emergency response team: actions must be taken quickly, decisively, and correctly. We must move, act, and function as a team. We must obey orders from the licensed Peace Officers who are supervising us promptly.

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Prayer of the Volunteer

 

The forked banner represents the cloak of Saint Martin, the rich cloak of a Roman Equítaté, a knight, which he tore in two to clothe a freezing beggar outside the gates of Amiens. You rewarded him, Lord, with a vision of Yourself clothed in his ragged cloak.

 

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Motto

Per ardua liberis
meaning: "Freedom through adversity."
 
It is only through duty and service that we have rights, only through sacrifice and hardship that we are or will remain free.

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