The second phase was exhilerating. Our cram packed schedule of Search-And-Rescue, Responding to Emergencies, Special Response Diver (NAPD), Basic Fire Fighting, Basic High-Angle Rescue,
Deployment to El Paso, and many other subjects all in the short period of ten weeks.We were part of the battalion even though we did not train with them. Our wake up time was 4:55
and then we usually started off with PT, after which we had breakfast and then we would go off to our classes. Depending on the dubject we would ether have a 
physical day or a slow class day. We had excellent professors for each subject who could usually make even the most boring subjects interesting.We had great audio visual to work with.
Hospital helicopters, made up fractures, dummies and fellow responders to practice our skills on. The times that stick with me the
most would be the dive trip in Florida and the El Paso Flood Relief.It is HARD to imagine going to Florida in the middle of summer and not visiting the beach. Well ... we went ocean diving once but we never touched the beach..
Our ocean dive was a 70ft dive to an old shipwreck, we saw many tropical fish and even a large baricuda, the water was very choppy and many of us (inc. me) got sea sick. We did two 20min dives, and than we headed back to the church we were staying with.
You wouldn't think of flood relief as fun, but it was almost like treasure hunting, we found what we could salvage for the people an then trashed and cleaned up the rest. During our two week trip to El Paso we also got treated to a really nice resteraunt where there was nothing on the menu less than $20, and we went MOUNTAIN CLIMBING!!! 7,600ft we started at around 3,000 and climbed, starting on the path and straying to the rock walls we at times were scaling sheer rock with no safety equipment
whatsoever. At the top were a few air towers and some barbed wire enforced with do not trespass signs. The climb down was not near as 
fun, we had taken barely enough water on the ascent We drank on average of 20lt of water every day because of the heavy work in such hot weather. It was sad to see the amount 
of furniture, cars, electronics, and many other things utterly ruined due to the flooding.Our Counceling classes were actually quite fun, and our firefighting was alot of fun also the fire fighting class was a blast! We put out a car fire and had to rescue victms from a burning house(STAGED)
the suits are very hot! and bulky but they would protect you from a fire. Playing with the hoses was a lot of fun also, the pressure they exert is tremedouse! BEST DAY EVER in ALERT was the last day, not because I was leaving but because of the events that took place.
I woke up in a good mood to the last day at ALERT, Pt was fun as we did a jody run for the last time, I managed to pass the firefighting test which I was sure I'd Bomb, at lunch I promoted to Responder First Class, I got $75 dollars for promoting which I of course spent, I cleared up all my paperwork and got the last signatures I needed before I left. The afternoon went well and I got to put out a large fire, I recieved a random gift witha $20 gift cert. for Walmarts,
and then supper was great, while I was at supper a Montez asked me if I still wanted to go flying, so things kept getting better, I went to Capt. Dankers and we had some speed Volleyball, after that I went flying over to Tyler with Montez and we did 
some field takoffs which feel like a roller coaster, after we also did some stalls and no gravity drops!!! It was perfect, I got back around midnight which is way after bedtime, and started a pillow fight, we got dropped and then I went to bed.
