Yeah, I went home for a couple weeks on a Red Cross message once.
There’s also a DoD contract for their heart card classes and they have a presence on bases, including overseas.
“Americans who have been around awhile, during that later stage of real, not-so-corrupt, high-trust America may think of the Red Cross as that wonderful volunteer group that has helped the wounded during wartime since the middle of the 1800s, collects and distributes blood (about 45% of the "market" in the US), and teaches water rescue. One may think of of famous nurse Clara Barton.”
Much of this here is irrelevant. Red Cross is a non-governmental organization, so there’s no need to appeal to “a time when the government was totally good”. They teach some lifeguard stuff, but I don’t think they are very active in the technical rescue field. They do some “me too” card courses, like AHA and ASHI. Clara Barton is a historical figure, but the DoD has nurses and shit now.
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