Role Of A Lifetime
By Mitch Berg
Someone sent me this, the other day:
The Salvation Army AAA@BBB.CCC wrote: From: “The Salvation
Army” <AAA@BBB.CCC>
To: XXX@YYY.ZZZ
Date: 18 Jul 2007 14:01:07 -0400
Subject: Summer Volunteer OpportunitiesVolunteer Opportunities
Salvation Army Summer Volunteer Opportunities
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Disaster Actor
The Minnesota National Guard needs volunteers to simulate a large
scale disaster for training purposes. As a disaster actor, you will be
given a story to act out and some make-up to go with the part, then youll
be saved from the rubble, washed down in decontamination, and bandaged
up. Individuals and groups are welcome as some shifts require 100
volunteers!
Dates: August 21 25
Times: Shifts are 8 a.m. 1 p.m. and Noon 5 p.m.
Location: Minneapolis National Guard Armory. Volunteers will be bused
from this location to the training site.
That actually sounds like fun, and I might see if I can do that.
Which brings up a question: you know the guys who play the terrorists, armed robbers and so forth for police and military simulations?
Where do they find volunteers for that? Because that sounds like fun.
July 19th, 2007 at 7:24 am
From what I have seen , the ‘bad dudes’ typically are portrayed by other police , military etc , though I have seen protestors portrayed by the general public
July 20th, 2007 at 6:01 am
Careful, Mitch, this could be a trick. Military recruitmers have gotten extremely creative lately, what with the failed war in Iraq and all.