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December 20th, 2002
PRESS RELEASE - For Immediate Release
Richard Fleetwood, Founder of SurvivalRing Unlimited and the SurvivalRing and Civil Defense Now websites, is proud to announce the release of the very first multimedia cd rom of authentic civil defense digital documents from his website. In work since 1997, this compilation of digital files in Adobe Acrobat PDF format and webpage html brings together the largest file libary yet of life saving material from all possible genres of preparedness, survival, and civil defense.
The SurvivalRing/Civil Defense Now Ultimate Civil Defense Digital Library
The Ultimate Civil Defense Digital Collection
Years in the making, close to 20,000 pages of documents and historical data, in over 475 reports, covering fallout shelter, nuclear survival, terrorism preparedness, natural and manmade and technological disaster preparedness and mitigation. This is by far the most state of the art presentation using the most AUTHENTIC material yet on Civil Defense.
Want proof that we are serious in being the best? We offer the following features on our CD that you won't find on most other cds offered on eBay...
> Our CD Rom features ON DISK search functions and programming!
> We have fully programmed navigation features, with custom graphics, browser enabled, with NO need for usage of disk drive space...it runs off the CD ROM completely.
> It autoboots for your system once installed (if autorun is enabled on your computer)
> It has links to DOZENS of the most useful history, organizations, and community sites on the web, including a DYNAMIC links system in case YOU want to add more useful sites to our database. Links to the Civil Defense organizations very hard to find elsewhere are here ( including the ultimate in civil defense nations...Switzerland's National Civil Defense Program).
> Buyers get email notifications of NEW files as they come online, with free access. This is a DYNAMIC project, after all.
> This is a completely NEW product, NOT an old collection, copy, or small set of documents. What you have here is the BEST compendium yet of ALL areas of fallout shelter....NOT just plans. Standards, Architecture, planning, schools, business, and more...all are covered here when it comes to REAL shelter.
> This CD Rom has more GOVERNMENT PRODUCED citizen survival information than ANY CD to date....including GOVERNMENT PRODUCED CD ROMS. Think on that for a moment....
> We provide technical support on this and all future CDs via email....does anyone else?
About The Author
Richard Fleetwood is the founder of the SurvivalRing webring, and the SurvivalRing, Civil Defense Now, and The Blast Shelter websites. He is married with three teenaged children and lives in central Wyoming. His background includes 10 years of federal employment, 5 years in the defense electronics industry producing FLIR, laser, and TOW systems, and many years in the computer field. He holds FEMA certificates in Radiological Emergency Management and Emergency Program Management.
Using skills developed in researching things computer, real estate, and technology job related, he spent thousands of hours online, in used bookstores, at flea markets “and any place you could find safety-related material,” and he started studying the entire genre of Civil Defense.
Despite “the billions of dollars spent from the ‘50s through the ‘80s on nuclear preparedness, Civil Defense, training materials, and more,” Fleetwood said, “there was precious little information on more than the very basic things on the Web.”
This US Civil Defense work from the Cold War period was intended to help farmers deal with radioactive fallout from a nuclear attack. It’s a good example of the extent of the efforts the US government made to protect the citizenry in those days.
Having collected over 200 unique and rare original Office of Civil Defense documents, manuals, training books, pamphlets, and other related materials over the past couple of years using Ebay, used book stores and searches, donations and loans from individuals around the country, he is slowing getting these rare sources of information scanned in and online on his websites. He has also compiled over 1.5 gigabytes of digitized documents from FEMA, the Red Cross, various Civil Defense organizations, military field manuals, and emergency management organizations nationwide, and is preparing a collection of this set of information for the world.
He has also made contacts with multiple international Civil Defense organizations and received hundreds of pages of English language documents from Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, the UK and Canada, and was at this writing awaiting packages from Singapore and Norway with more of the same.
His goal is to create the single largest online and offline source of worldwide Civil Defense documentation, training, and historical archiving for any and all future uses of those needing this information.
To Richard Fleetwood, Civil Defense is the same as “citizen preparedness.”
“It is up to each and every one of us in this nation to be prepared when a disaster strikes either directly or nearby, so that we do not burden others, and are able and available to assist those who do suffer the worst,” Fleetwood said. “There are many other areas of Civil Defense that connect completely with the theme of citizen preparedness, such as the skills of threat assessment, national security knowledge, neighborhood watch programs, crime prevention, and so forth.”
He uses his spare time and research skills to maintain his SurvivalRing website, one of the leading preparedness information websites in the world. Since his current big project is to collect as many original Civil Defense documents as possible from both domestic and international agencies, as well as individual collectors who wish to help with this project, to create the world’s largest online archive of this life-saving material, which he calls, “Civil Defense Now,” please contact him at rafleet@gmail.com if you have original Civil Defense documents of any kind or age to share.
By Richard Fleetwood
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