What Constitutes "Reasonable Preparedness" ?

[Dave Haynes]

Before VN ( 5/66-5/67 ) I spent 6 months in the 5th I.D. in Colorado Springs. I was an E2 making about $72? a month. The cocktail waitresses in C.S. ambushed better than the NVA. Get up to use the latrine and your 1/2 finished beer became a fresh one and another $2 left your wallet. Being a Petaluma CA rowdy, I was a trained drunk and the near beer didn't work for me either. Luckily my money was gone by the second week and I avoided going down town after that. Beyond that it was cold and the C.S. drivers failed snow driving in a spectacular way. Being about 2 miles from Cheyenne Mountain the #1 nuclear target in the US at the time, made leaving for the war an upgrade. I had a radio in my ear under my coat when I walked guard duty. Turn East and you got a Cubs game, face South it was Mexican stations, West you got the Dodgers game. I couldn't wait to get out of there.

 

[fatcat3]

Cow bells. I'm more likely to get run over by a heard of dairy cows than in a gun fight. Sadly no one bells their cows anymore

 

[steelslaver]

Part of my "reasonable preparedness" is accessing the risk. The chances vary a lot with the when and the where. o me being totally prepared for anything is impossible and not how I chose to live my life. Some guys have a gun in their shower. I don't I often go around our little town completely unarmed. Yes, something could happen. Might get hit by a piece of falling space junk, but I don't wear a Kevlar helmet. I do have a carbon fiber hardhat when I go out on the job. however. When I go to the bigger cities and hit the pawn shops etc, I am armed.