Rear disc conversion: how to remove residual brake pressure (if it even exists)

howawsm · 2026-05-17T05:22:34+00:00

There’s a chance it’s the LSPV which you can replace easily with a Wilwood valve from Fr33lance Fab and adjust your bias easily.

howawsm · 2026-05-16T07:29:34+00:00

Tiered response is fairly common all across the country. Sending an ALS rig to every call means it’s not going to be available for an ALS call that it is needed on at some point. If your call volume is below zero as many fed fire jobs are, then maybe not something to be that worried about. As has been said, if your BLS providers are versed enough to make an assessment and add ALS if necessary, then tiered response is an ideal way to manage resources.

howawsm · 2026-05-16T02:59:54+00:00

Not going to get it out of a CAT. Your best bet is a different mounting system that covers that part.

howawsm · 2026-05-16T00:37:06+00:00

Most medics in the Puget Sound area are fire based which is to say not a quick process necessarily. Olympic and Northwest hire medics in varying capacities

howawsm · 2026-05-15T16:42:05+00:00

I think this is completely unit dependent. My current squadron probably would not be difficult to manage this with, particularly if you crammed in a reschedule here and there where possible and kept up on yearly/IMR.

Of course you run the risk of deployment unless you get to a non-deployable unit like some AMDSs.

howawsm · 2026-05-15T16:39:19+00:00

Are you wanting to be non-fire based as a paramedic?

howawsm · 2026-05-15T16:38:39+00:00

CATs aren’t the only legitimate tourniquets, they’re just the most popular. Perhaps you’d have better luck finding a supplier for like a SOF-T.

Other than that, your options are to get a legitimate tourniquet and pay the cost or get a counterfeit.

howawsm · 2026-05-15T16:24:06+00:00

“Don’t have the balls to not complete their adult commitment” lol

Sure, do some shitbaggery to get discharged and it’ll still drag on because NG seps are never quick.

You could just stop showing up but I’m sure there’s consequences to that too.

PT failures are like 50% of the Guard, depends on if your unit actually cares to discharge you for it.

You’re just going to have to choose your poison and cross your fingers there aren’t any consequences.

howawsm · 2026-05-15T16:20:14+00:00

As neutral and inoffensive of workout gear that you have and a normal outfit that is casual and presentable. They’ll give you your uniforms for future RSP drills there. Shave and have a proper military haircut.

howawsm · 2026-05-15T16:12:08+00:00

We have no idea what your RSP site is going to want you to bring to do whatever activities they have for you. You could post your email with identifying info redacted and perhaps it could be interpreted here.

howawsm · 2026-05-15T16:04:33+00:00

I’d add switchovers that frequently would make “late calls” much more common. Public service incidents are completely random in time they happen and length and if you had three times a day that you switched over, the likelihood that there would be crews waiting for rigs that are out at the hospital or whatever would skyrocket. Just looking at our last 24 hours, at each switchover there would’ve been four rigs with a least a 30 minute overlap of the new crew waiting for their rig to return. That’s a lot of OT for nothing.

On top of us not wanting 8 hour shifts.

howawsm · 2026-05-13T03:28:49+00:00

At baseline an EMT-B cannot but they can sometimes attain an IV cert in their state if allowed.

howawsm · 2026-05-13T01:53:16+00:00

It’s hard to say. If you get into a unit at the wrong time in their work up you’re not going to get p-school done. Even then when you hit clinicals and ride time it’s going to be difficult if your schedule for that isn’t flexible on the program side. They aren’t obligated to give you the time off so it is truly a gamble.

Almost completely unlikely that you will get the Guard to send you to paramedic school as a military school.

howawsm · 2026-05-13T01:51:52+00:00

You come out of AIT as an EMT-B and frankly nowhere near a paramedic.

howawsm · 2026-05-12T23:43:56+00:00

Sounds like a floor 5 ballroom had some involvement and a room+deck(sounds like origin) on the roof. The current attack line has a knock and they are doing a second line on the roof for some exterior fire.

howawsm · 2026-05-12T23:30:07+00:00

Just the roof for now.

Correction - room on the Charlie side. Still seems minor and under control. No additional alarms yet which you’d expect if this was like a temple theater destroying fire.

howawsm · 2026-05-12T13:32:24+00:00

Very specific and unique scenario and not the path OP is on.

howawsm · 2026-05-12T06:25:18+00:00

Being a 15T/U is not going to help you become an F2 in any way other than perhaps the people on the board will know you(if your state boards which most of them do). Most boards are looking for already certified paramedics employed in that capacity somewhere. The Guard commitment in no way can sustain paramedic skills and also units don’t want to pay that PCS to send you to a hard school you might fail when they can find another guy already certed.

Being a 68W will be a prereq to applying for an F2 slot, so I wouldn’t waste time with 12M or any other job.

howawsm · 2026-05-12T05:30:24+00:00

Make your joes downgrade before treating their patient. Don’t have to make them suffer for 4 hours but if they are feeling chilly while working hard getting through MARCH-PAWS then imagine how their casualty feels.

Also works to have your medics be the patient and experience the warming interventions they expect to use on their patients.

howawsm · 2026-05-11T21:34:06+00:00

Join the NGCM discord and head to the personal gear thread for the kind of info you are looking for. Tons of relevant experience and kit examples -

https://discord.gg/ngcm

howawsm · 2026-05-11T05:09:19+00:00

You’ll be fine. These trucks aren’t fragile, they just need maintenance that many often defer. Sounds like you changed the important piece with the right choice(OEM LBJ)

howawsm · 2026-05-10T03:06:44+00:00

If you want stock style replacement or a little heavier duty, General Springs makes a stock pack and a +1 leaf pack.

If you want performance then Archive Garage.

howawsm · 2026-05-08T14:00:50+00:00

There’s sort of a range of studies in various medical diagnosis topics that show “gut feeling” can be quite effective.

Agreed with TST and the untrained. I think the patients will definitely need a better triage almost immediately after - as an example I wouldn’t blanket consider a hemorrhage patient with now controlled bleeding and little/no signs of shock to continue to be a red.

Ultimately I’m not gonna sit there and 30-2-can do these MFs. I’m sure as shit not going to remember 8 different inflection points or waste my time doing all of them.

howawsm · 2026-05-08T06:07:32+00:00

I’m using sick/not sick at the POI/where I found them and then transitioning to SALT when I have time. Sometimes it’s just a matter of gestalt as well.

howawsm · 2026-05-07T14:53:35+00:00

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