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...know those supersales at your local department store in which they offer great deals on a couple of things in the hopes of getting enough people in the door so they can move the crap too? That's sort of what the Treasury Department and Tim Geithner are doing with the bank plan that was rolled out on Monday...
...rest of your unit react when they heard about your plan? A lot of our peers sort of made fun of us. They were cracking jokes. They thought it was lame to be starting a business, but maybe those same guys will be asking us for jobs next month. [Laughs...
...when they were connected to such traumatic incidents. And we realized we had the skills to help these people out back home who were going through these types of things, and what came to mind was homicides and suicides. We knew it happened in people's homes, and we sort of figured they were doing this themselves. Eighty percent of these cleanups still, even today, get cleaned up by families themselves. And there's just no reason for it, because what we do is all covered by homeowner's insurance. There's no excuse for anybody to have...
...there any sort of psychological training? The psychological preparation really happens at boot camp. They pretty much prepare you for anything. If you're going to fail, you're going to do it there usually. But above that, there really was no psychological training. They put us in shock-value scenarios, like viewing those autopsies. They put us in front of that to gauge our reactions, and I think most everybody dealt with it pretty well. That being said, one thing we do back home at Biotrauma, we've identified the fact that stress has a cumulative effect...
...After you recovered these soldiers, what happened next? We would place the remains in a transfer case, which is sort of like a metal casket, and would drape the flag over it. Then we would load them onto the aircraft for transport. And when we would load them on, we did a little ceremony. The flight crew would be involved, standing in formation on either side of the bay doors, and we would do a little march from our vehicle to the plane and would situate the transfer case into the plane. There's a flag hanging overhead...