Recruits and Command

B Shifter · Mar 12, 2026 · 56m · transcript

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This episode, Josh Blum, Chris Stewart and John Vance connect recruit training to stronger incident command by showing how day-one decision making, radio discipline, and functional evolutions create safer firegrounds. Along the way we share first-arriver expectations, Mayday triggers, air management, and the myth of “just do work.”

• day-one radio use and communication norms

• building decision-making through functional evolutions

• size-up, critical factors, and risk choices

• priority traffic, Mayday structure, and channel discipline

• problem solving under pressure

• air…