Ep 52: Rescue Task Force - Common Challenges and Expectations

NEW! Watch this show on YouTube at https://youtube.com/live/iXHgu7zomfoBill Godfrey:Welcome to the Active Shooter Incident Management Podcast. My name is Bill Godfrey, your podcast host. I am joined today by three of our wonderful C3 Pathways instructors. On my right here is Tom Billington, one of our Fire/EMS instructors. Welcome, Tom.Tom Billington:Good to be back.Bill Godfrey:It is good to have you back. Been a minute, that's for sure. We're also joined across the table from us. Russ Woody, one of our law enforcement instructors. Russ, welcome from North Carolina.Russ Woody:Yeah, glad to be down, Bill.Bill Godfrey:Good to have you here. And then we've got Travis Cox, also one of our law enforcement instructors and our training director. Travis, it's good to have you here in the studio.Travis Cox:Hey, it's good to be here. Good to see you guys again.Bill Godfrey:It's exciting. It has been a minute. It feels good to be back doing podcasts again. And of course, we've upped the game a little bit. I looked, it was September of last year that we did our last podcast, so we're just shy of a year being off the air. Can you believe that?Travis Cox:Yeah. It didn't seem that long, but time flies as they say.Russ Woody:It really does.Bill Godfrey:It sure does. It sure does. And everybody's due an explanation about why that is. And the truth of the matter is, there has been a lot of changes, all good stuff, but a lot of changes over the last year and it just became difficult to keep up with. You may or may not notice if you have heard the podcast before, we are also videotaping our podcasts now, as well. They're going to be up on our YouTube channel and we're here in our brand new studio.Travis Cox:And it's amazing.Russ Woody:Yeah, it looks great. Really does.Bill Godfrey:It is so exciting to be here. But we've also moved, we are no longer in the building we were in before. We've moved to a new location. We've got new offices set up, new space. We've got a dedicated studio set up and we're getting ready to open a dedicated training center. Granted it fell a little bit behind schedule, some construction delays. It just seems like you can't keep construction on schedule no matter what you do. But that's going to get cleared up and we're going to have this beautiful training center opened up here I think pretty soon.Russ Woody:As you know, Bill, when I got here, I started taking pictures. I've been sending pictures to all my friends about how this facility looks, how professional it is, and a lot of people were saying, wow, that's quite an improvement. So it's come a long way.Travis Cox:Definitely. Definitely. When I first saw it, it wasn't what I expected, but when I saw it I said, "Oh man, this is the first class all the way." So excited to be here and looking forward to what we're going to be doing in the future.Russ Woody:Very much same. It really didn't surprise me. It seems like everything that Bill does, really puts forward every effort and it is a great facility.Bill Godfrey:Well, those are gracious words, Russ, but this is a team effort and there's a lot of people involved in doing this from picking out all the stuff. Our producer, Karla, who's behind the scenes, she and a couple of the other people picked out a lot of the carpet and the finishings and the colors and it's just really nice to have a place that we can call our own and do some ded