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Help Fight Wildfires! Save the P3 Orion Airtanker! on @indiegogo http://igg.me/p/965490/twtr 

The US Forest Service has a shortage of Large Airtankers, resulting in a dangerous reduction of firefighting capabilities.

We can help the US Forest Service (USFS) by providing relief when they do not have enough tanker resources.

•  Firefighters first on scene of the Eiler fire north of Redding requested airtanker support but were denied until two days later, when the fire was out of control.
• 8 homes and 23,000 charred acres later, that fire was contained.
• There were 6 P-3 Orion airtankers only 40 minutes away, but without a contract, they were unable to provide assistance.
• In 2002, there were 48 Large Airtankers pre-positioned around the US, ready for initial attack to suppress wildfires before they were out of control.
• As of December 2014, there are only 17 Large Airtankers available.

With your help, the P-3 Orion firefighting airtanker fleet can be returned to service!

In 2011, after 20 years in service as the backbone of the US Forest Service’s large airtanker fleet for fighting wildland fires in the United States, the USFS cancelled the contract for six P-3 airtankers due to a contract dispute between Aero Union, the owner of the P-3 fleet, and the USFS.  When the negotiations came to an impasse, the USFS cancelled the P-3s, who were in the middle of a firefight in Texas, and the pilots flew these six airworthy aircraft home.

Orion Aerial Firefighters (AFF) has assembled a unique team of engineers, maintenance experts, and pilots who stand ready to return these aircraft to aerial firefighting. The familiarity of our maintenance experts with these particular aircraft position Orion AFF as the only company capable of returning this P-3 fleet to service within a year of funding.

The best way to get these critical airtankers back into service is to solicit community support allowing this fleet to return to its wildland firefighting mission.

We need you to help to fund the costs of:

·  Buying the P-3 fleet from an aircraft dismantling company before
   the P-3s are destroyed;

·  Engineering to determine the necessary repair and maintenance to
   return the fleet to aerial firefighting service;

·  Performing the repair and maintenance work;

·  Leasing the maintenance facility in which to perform the work.

These aircraft are the best airtankers ever devised for wildland firefighting in the US. If every person who was ever threatened by wildfire were to give just one dollar, we can easily attain our goal.

Why seek crowdfunding?

The risk to the venture capitalists is too great without a guaranteed contract with the USFS.  Many of us in the firefighting industry (including many of the front line personnel at the USFS and CalFIRE who cannot go on record) know that once we have this fleet back in service, the USFS, and possibly other state agencies, will use this fleet to help address the current Large Airtanker shortage, with the ultimate goal of saving the United States from further devastation from wildfires.

To a typical investor or bank, our mission does not make sense, because they
cannot operate on faith that they will get a return on their investment.  This project is about much more than financial gain – it is about taking an opportunity to save a US national asset from destruction.

Our team is ready and waiting to go to work, and with your help we can have these P-3 aircraft on the ground ready to fly before the 2016 fire season, and potentially by the time the Santa Ana winds kick up in southern California in 2015.

Other Ways You Can Help

If you cannot contribute financially, but still would like to help, you can!

Please share this campaign with your friends, your family and anyone in your network.

If you tell two friends, and they tell two friends, then before you know it, we'll be in the sky...maybe even protecting YOUR home.

PLEASE help us save this valuable resource!

"...Sometimes people underestimate what it means to acknowledge someone's humanity"

A blog by Kitt you must read if you never read anything else.

http://autisticchick.blogspot.com/2014/01/what-i-saw.html?m=1

Gov't. Shutdown!

Well, facebook land, all 1.2 billion of you- what do you think we should do with these overpaid, suit wearing useless employees we are paying to run and monitor the law keeping, safe, and efficient govt. offices? Hmmm. I triple dog dare you to remove every sitting elected official and replace them. Every single one. Can you imagine the message that would send? Print and list every single elected office you have the power to vote out and make sure you let them know TODAY, their services are no longer needed and you will accept their resignation. Then vote them out the next chance you get. #noguts #nochange #usa

Date Night, Sunday Funday

Wow! So winning the Ultimate Raider Experience via my58- was awesome!

We dressed in our outdated by good luck Raider jerseys, poked a flower in my updo and jumped in the truck right around 8:30 a.m.

And saw this....

And this

And this

 

We were on our way to do this

And saw this

Ending with  dinner and margaritas at Casa Lupe, and this

Today's Unsolicited Relationship Advice

Today's unsolicited relationship advice: 

Couples are initially attracted to one another for a myriad of reasons. Looks, hobbies, religion, occupation. So many are fleeting, these days, hot flames blown out like candles in the wind..after a short time. How do couples last, stay together, get married, stay faithful? It's not love, it's not honesty, loyalty or maturity. It's not your slim physique. It's praise. Yep- plain simple, unending, every day praise, appreciation, a shining mirror of happiness you reflect back to your significant other. You do not love someone because of their attributes. You fall and stay in love, based on how that person makes you feel about you-yourself. Be it pretty, thin, muscular, smart, witty, kind, compassionate, resourceful, honest, loyal, strong. Knowing exactly what your partner is striving to be, then telling and showing them consistently they ARE exactly what they wish to be, and how proud you are of them, is the unbreakable bond. Along those same lines, if you find yourself the one hurt in every relationship or find you've been discarded for another more than once? Maybe, check your words, actions, and "constructive" criticisms. Do you humiliate or embarrass the person you "love" in front of others? Even worse, do you criticize their hopes and dreams? Do you belittle their interests? Do you berate them or point out their faults and failures, in the name of "honesty" or "reality". Is your focus on what you desire and what's in the relationship for you? Check and adjust your relationship mirrors. Especially for those blind spots.

Yours truly,
Mama