While I lurk here most the time I'm usually pretty active on ZS. I just have been very busy with SAR stuff over the last few months I haven't really been on either much these days.

so +1 on all of it

For the record, ETS was contacted by Zombie Squad in it's early days.

I do not recall all, nor was I privy to the particulars.

It was Doug's decision to maintain the Foundation's independance.

This is not a reflection on ZS or anyone else, but it deflects

many potential conflicts of interest.


A few years ago, My then Gf sold my knife collection while I was

in hospital. She offered many on a popular knife website.

A set was sold 'as new.' Well, they were 'as new' except I had

The temerity to clean up the factory edge and treat the sheath

with hot beeswax. My G/F sold the set for almost nothing.

The buyer went ballistic, posting photos and claiming foul. He

also figured out I was moderator here, no doubt by my actually

using my real name and tried to bash the website. Rumours were

flying, I came home to find

several items I didn't want sold gone. I had to do PR,


offering to buy back with S/H ANYTHING people were upset with.

Naturally, the one complaintant liked his knife set enough to

refuse ( and resold it on that forum for a 150% profit later.)

This is one reason why ETS doesn't hold hands with just any

pretty girl online, nor do I off.

And I think that it is good that ETS, ZS and similarly insanity-free preparedness/survival sites should remain separate. Yes, there will be cross posting, because we have a lot of people who like to go various places.

Why is that most of us have 50+ channels of television, rather than just streaming ETS-TV? Sure, most of us here watch some of the same shows, but not all of us watch all of the same stuff. Same difference. I have stuff I'll post over at ZS (like when I'm feeling silly) that I might not post here, and vice versa.

That, and if the insanity barriers should slip, like they did IMHO at a certain forum a while back, people can bail out of them and still regroup at places where they are comfortable. I hadn't known that ZS had contacted ETS, but I'm not surprised. As I've said, they have a very similar vibe to them, not just because of the mutual members.

Does Lieutenant Tom Keefer post at Zombie Squad?

Another cross-poster here.

I'm also a ZS-member and mostly spend a lot of time in the first-aid section. Together with members like Doc Simon, Tac Medic and GanaEMT I think we've set up quite a good board in which there can be both professional discussions on TCCC, ACLS, etc. and more humorous posts like the infamous Throwdown-thread..


As said, ZS definately isn't for the lightly-offended
but I think that the sense of humor on ZS is just awesome.