[philmont] Training, Ad Nauseum

Greetings Folks,

This thread will probably generate a lot more smoke than fire, but here goes
anyway.

Training, we don't need no stinking training!

First of all, WFA is not an unfunded mandate. It isn't like every car that
is manufactured after X date must have a passive restraint system or that
every sidewalk has to have an access ramp for wheelchairs built to a certain
specification. Those are unfunded mandates. There is absolutely no
requirement for WFA if you don't go to Philmont. But if you choose to go,
you also choose to follow their rules and their rules are that each crew
must have at least one person trained in WFA and at least one trained in
CPR. It's kind of like health insurance; there is no requirement that you
have health insurance, but I bet most of you do.

It may ONLY take two or three hours for the Medical Staff at Philmont to
reach you in the event of a serious injury, once they get the call. But if
I'm injured or ill and it is my butt that needs a slightly higher level of
care during those two or three hours than most of the Scouts and Scouters I
have seen, then I will welcome the additional 'level of assurance' provided
by a WFA trained person.

Don't want to take the training? Then go hike somewhere else. It's your
choice!

Roy Fisher

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Received on Tue May 27 18:46:38 2008