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My Work Resume
Read my Professional Resume for skills, work history and more.
Who runs SurvivalRing?
SurvivalRing is more than just a website with a whole boatload of links on it. It is a group of people working together as a team, with a single goal of working to help anyone that we come in contact with learn more about our world around us and how to stay safe in our surroundings. The core of this site, made up of all the members of SurvivalRing webring, all have an interest in sharing information and providing tools and training in the art of Preparedness. With the hundreds of ring members, and the thousands of emails we get each month, it takes more than a single person to keep it up to date, so we've had a few friends join in with us to help me stay on top of the important stuff.
This page will tell you a little bit more about the founder of SurvivalRing, and his assistant ring leaders. Also, any and all volunteers who join up with us will also get a mention on this page, since they will be helping run the ring and keep it the best that it can be, by checking ring sites and notifying us with some regularity of missing sites, invalid linkages, or other similar problems.
FOUNDER
NAME: Richard Fleetwood
LOCATION: Riverton, Wyoming
WEBSITES:
- The SurvivalRing Homepage
- Cosmic Echoes - My Blog
- MyFalloutShelter.com
- Civil Defense Now
- Richard's Professional Page
- The NEW Blast Shelter Site...Under Construction
- Sundancer DigiPros Web Design
- The Blast Shelter original site
- Richard's Personal Page
PHILOSOPHY:
Nobody ever got hurt by being TOO prepared. Take advantage of all the tools, technology, knowledge, and information available to you NOW, teaching yourself what you MAY need to know to deal with what MIGHT happen where you live. Your family will thank you and you will help more than you think by just taking the time to DO IT.
OCCUPATION/BACKGROUND:
I've been a professional college student since Fall of 2003. I've worked at Central Wyoming College as the student radio station manager, a multi-program tutor, a computer lab technician, a television station master control operator, and freelance videographer.
I've earned an Associates of Applied Science Degree in Electronic Media Production, and will finish an Associates of Applied Science Degree in Web Design in May 2006. I've been accepted to Upper Iowa State to continue work, and will be earning a Bachelors Degree in Emergency and Disaster Management.
Previous to my return to college, I was a plant manager for Worland Linen, before the owner sold it last year to American Cleaners of Lander.
I spent many years as a City Letter Carrier for the U.S. Postal Service from 1991 to September 2000, over the road driver from September 2000 to April 2001. Manager of McDonalds of Lander, Wyoming from May 2001 to May 2003.
Prior work includes manufacturing, construction, computer operations, research, sales, and hi-tech defense electronics (FLIR and lasers). I am politically conservative and consider myself a Constitutionalist, christian, believe in a strong work ethic, and believe anything worthwhile is worth fighting for...no matter how long or how hard.
I have certificates from FEMA in Emergency Program Managers and Radiological Emergency Management.
Read My Full Service Resume...
THOUGHTS ON PREPAREDNESS:
With so many people in this world who COULD have been saved time, trouble, injury, and maybe even death by OTHERS taking the time to gather and learn skills in JUST a few areas, why are so many still sitting on their hands NOT taking care of themselves, and therefore helping to make things worse in the long run? Most governments practice self preservation, and some even do it to HELP their citizens as well....but the citizen should be the one MAKING it happen, in all areas of society.
THOUGHTS ON SURVIVAL:
The whole point of human existence, even unto this day, is to JUST SURVIVE all the trials and tribulations that this little floating ball of dirt, mud, and rocks can throw at us. Learning how to do it in any and all ways possible, in the worst or most improbable situations, does NOT a survivalist make. Neither does just owning a gun and waiting for Armageddon or Martial Law or The Second Coming. Or just being a Stark Raving Lunatic (SRL), complaining about black helicopters and alien implants. Every branch of our military teaches in every aspect of every job, how to survive in combat. We then throw these warriors out to the bad guys to see how well they learned their job. Our schools teach us (or should) how to survive in the business world. Our politicians strive to "survive" all the slings and arrows that public work can throw at them. Our poor and sick and criminal in this country just try to "survive" one more hour, or one more day, or one more meal.
The recent attack on the WTC brought the entire idea of REAL prepardness back to this country in a big way. We must ALL remain vigilant and do everything we can to protect our loved ones for when the NEXT terrorist attack occurs...wherever and whenever it might...we won't know until it is too late. Just practice situational awareness at ALL times....
FAVORITES:
BOOKS:
Earth in Upheaval, by Immanuel Velikovsky - No other book covers in such depth the geologic history of the turmoil this planet has gone thru, in HISTORIC times. A very good reason to know more about POSSIBLE earth changes.
LAST BOOKS READ:
- Deep Survival - Laurence Gonzales
- Single Combat - Dean Ing
- Strategic Relocation - Joel Skousen
- Dozens of documents on Civil Defense resources from 1941 to 2003
QUOTE:
"I drank WHAT??" - Socrates
MENTOR(s):
My late father, who even though he had areas he could have improved in, instilled in me the quest to never stop learning, and to try to be the best at all that I do.
Immanuel Velikovsky, who, when he came out with his theories on global earth changing events in historical times, via WORLDS IN COLLISION and EARTH IN UPHEAVAL, and bore the brunt of the entire scientific community for what HE believed in, stood up to the task and never backed down, and found many of his scientific theories proved decades later. Stuff happens, and people get hurt...and he reached back to the edges of history to try to find out how it might be avoided in the future, by knowing what really happened in the past.
See My Point?
MOVIES:
(a) "Real Genius" - About how a government can really do bad things with tax funds, including building giant space lasers that can vaporize human sized targets on the ground. (Must be my background in a laser lab in the late 1980s that keeps me watching it every so often!!)
(b) "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" - For pure insipid and deep laughter, including such great scenes as the Black Knight, the killer rabbit, the shrubberies, and "Help! I'm being repressed! Come see the violence inherent in the system!" Grab the screenplay here.
(c) "Braveheart" - A Mel Gibson film about William Wallace, the Scottish hero. "Every Man Dies...Not Every Man Really Lives" is a quote I take to heart from this movie. You have to watch this movie at least once to see what bravery and courage really mean.
(d) "The Patriot" - Another Mel Gibson epic, about the founding of the United States. Every once in a while, when the political wonks start screaming and whining again, I think about this movie, and say to myself, "Could this happen again?"
(e) "Dances With Wolves" - Kevin Costner's Oscar winning movie about the west. Now living near one of the largest reservations in the nation, I really appreciate his touching portrayal of the Souix Nation, and get to enjoy the wonderful Wyoming vistas every day. Having passed thru the Hills of South Dakota shown in the movie, I think I like Wyoming better.
MOST FULFILLING MOMENT IN THE LAST FEW YEARS:
Getting emails from all over the world from people thankful for my work on my webpages and on this webring. I NEVER expected this project to get so huge and grow so fast. It has really given me an opportunity to help friends and strangers learn how they can live better and safer lives, and help those all around them, and it gives me a great feeling that the information gathered and presented here WILL save lives at some point in the future.
...and yes, we are EXTREMELY distant cousins....you know, Uncle Mick?