I come to ETS from a wilderness perspective which I began to explore as I attended college in Arizona and began longer and longer excursions into wild country. My senior year I was drawn into my first SAR operation, which was rather wild and woolly, but really rather informative. After a thankfully brief hitch in the Army, I began a career in the National Park Service, working for the first ten years or so in isolated areas, where the neighborhood supermarket was fifty miles away, and stocking up on provisions, etc., was an obvious priority. There were occasions when our living room became a dormitory during storm events.

And then I wound up in earthquake country - California. Of course I prep.