How often do you check your stored kit?

[CharlesHarris]

We teach in our CERT classes that kit should be inspected and replenished after every exercise or mission, or not less than twice annually, usually in the spring and again in fall.

We held a social gathering with cookout and formal equipment inspection and supply issue / replenishment during the Memorial Day weekend in May.

And got together as a group again in the fall usually between Armistice Day and Thanksgiving in November.

We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.