TRU Challenge

[Starwolf]

I was down at the local County Sheriff's office yesterday and they had a SWAT team display. Part of the display was dedicated to a different type of SPEC OPS police unit. This unit was designated a T.R.U. or Tactical Rescue Unit. These men and women are trained to Special Forces proficiency in high risk rescue techniques. They specialize in EMT under fire, High Mountain Rescue, Acrtic Water Rescue, Avalanche Recovery, and other types of high danger emergency services. So here is the challenge....

I thought it would be interesting to see what types of teams, characters, equipment, vehicles, headqaurters, etc, the board could come up with....for a Hero TRU.

Ok....Ready....Set....GO!!!

[Mark Taylor]

Are we supposed to base our ideas on "real-life" T.R.U.s, or can we get as fanciful as we like? :)

[Starwolf]

I'd say some amount of fancy would be appropriate...within the Dark Champions framework. In other words most if not all capabilities should come from equipment or training rather than super-powers or magic type stuff.

[KawangaKid]

I think that there are some pretty neat WelchAllyn AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) Here's a link to one: http://www.aedsuperstore.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=292

Plus there's a device called a CPREzy kit that's used to improve the perfomance of CPR with protection from exchange of liquids between the victim and the person performing CPR, a device that helps keep the rhythm of compression and monitors the pressure of each compression. Here's a link too: http://www.cpr-ezy.com/index.html

Some Local Government Units here in the Philippines are trying to get these kits together for an Emergency Team separate from the reg'lar Ambulances and emergency teams... just coz traffic's a bear, and a lot of the providers 'HQs' are centrally located, not spread out across the Metro Manila area. At least that's how I understand it.