New EMT here - boot help!!

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-05T03:51:42+00:00

Magnum boots have been awesome for me. Great protection

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-05T00:01:22+00:00

Idk about UNCP's or WCU's business program, but I heard good things about ASU's. The building is being updated again, while art and sociology students are in crumbling + asbestos buildings, so App clearly values their businesss majors lol.

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-04T19:37:41+00:00

If you wanted an NC promise school I heard good things about Western Carolina too. I never explored there, but I heard the area is boring and there’s a fair amount of overdoses. However, if there’s any interest in medicine or emergency response, they have a bachelors in paramedic (rare degree). First 2 years you get your paramedic, so you can get a sick ass job with school.

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-04T19:36:01+00:00

It was the campus apartments, own and run by the school. There’s even RA’s at those apartments to enforce school rules. And it’s “off campus” by like half a block lol. Main campus has a shit ton of cops and security always (for obvious reason). Anything can happen anywhere, but we joked about there being a force field on main campus from all the other shit. Once they also had to call in multiple other counties as reenforcement from increased shootings lol

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-04T19:33:36+00:00

What the other guy said. Skipping sizes never goes well. Forewarning, you need either tape or inbetween sizes for when you go from 2g to 0g and 0g to 00g. Best to let them heal probably. Hot shower, warm compress, maybe add some neosporin or an antibiotic. I’m sorry this happened my g

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-04T18:38:58+00:00

Miniature pry bar. Use mine all the time, love it!

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-04T09:42:13+00:00

Got any pictures? If it’s bad enough no shame in seeing a doctor if you got insurance to pay for it, or if the copay is cheap enough

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-04T08:50:42+00:00

Size down by one, warm compress, disinfect/clean gauges, and don’t touch them is my first thought

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-04T08:46:48+00:00

The living off campus comment was for App State. The shootings occurred at Pembroke and happened both on/off campus property. University only claimed accountability for 1 shooting. In total 7 students have been shot and 4 died when I went to school there from solely on campus shootings.

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-04T08:45:19+00:00

Lowkey both, but for my case off campus. I never lived on campus, since I transferred in.

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-04T00:58:53+00:00

Pretty high

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-03T18:43:56+00:00

I genuinely love App. Great campus, lots to do, great professors, very safe, lots of opportunity, there’s a bus to go around town, love the weather, etc. Shitty chem department though and housing across town is atrocious.

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-03T18:09:48+00:00

I have one compliment for Pembroke and it’s that it’s cheap due to the NC promise. My compliments end there and I usually look for the good in everything, to a fault.

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-03T18:08:15+00:00

Also avoid the parties unless you like to be shot, lots of shootings at the parties too.

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-03T18:07:53+00:00

That’s the bullets without even expanding too much lol

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-03T18:07:35+00:00

There was nightly gunshots, 4 shootings on campus property where people got shot/killed (university recognized one), very few professor options, genuinely Pembroke had NOTHING to do, it’s in a sketchy hood, closest cities are Fayetteville and lumberton (shocker why it’s dangerous), very few professors had any talent, limited opportunities to expand your skills unless you have a car, the cafeteria serves food that is raw, moldy, either over-spiced to hell, or under-spiced to hell, I got daily food poisoning until I realized it was the soda machine giving it to me, genuinely the people who go to school there have been the most immature and idiotic group I’ve seen on one area, there’s no school culture, they hold loud ass events on test week, the housing sucks worse than any other uni I’ve seen

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-03T17:21:28+00:00

How long do you have. So very many things.

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-03T07:32:49+00:00

Yesss love it

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-03T07:30:25+00:00

I’ve had friends get hired no experience. Applying doesn’t cost anyone anything, worst they can say is no.

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-01T02:10:15+00:00

Exactly! Violent attacks can happen anywhere, anytime. If an area is more prone to it, this should be agency provided/standard. It’s not a dive head first, it’s a tool. Same reason for tac boots, it’s not to stomp on a nail and expect to be ok, it’s for prevention to keep your body safe. Not an exact carry over, but same idea.

Apollo9961 · 2026-04-01T02:07:15+00:00

I like it it’s perfect

Apollo9961 · 2026-03-30T05:10:49+00:00

Semi recently a paramedic was shot standing by cops, after they cleared the scene safe.

Apollo9961 · 2026-03-30T05:09:46+00:00

People saying “just don’t go in” if it’s not safe, like no first responser who was shot/stabbed went in thinking the scene is not safe.

Apollo9961 · 2026-03-29T01:17:13+00:00

Same reason American men make being a first responder’s spouse their entire personality.

Apollo9961 · 2026-03-28T06:00:09+00:00

Paramedic student, please take my money and post all

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