I think you’d have to stick me in the medical tent as well, with my abilities as a medical lab tech. I could also do double duty in the gardens, with my plant knowledge and my experiences growing up in Saskatchewan with a Mennonite mother who was raised on a farm. Gotta get the crops in the ground at the right times, and then get all those fruits and veggies safely put up for when the Safeway trucks stop coming.
I’ll be the one fixing the bicycles since I worked as a bicycle mechanic before. We will likely have bicycles long after we run out of gas for the cars. The roads will either be turned to rubble or be blocked with cars by people trying to unsuccessfully run away. Bicycles will be a definite advantage.
I’m also skilled at riding bicycles and am a above average runner. I will be useful for lookout and being a messenger.
I’m also a good-looking guy. You’ll need me for the women 
I am a male virgin, perfect for having the first go at impregnating all female virgins. This will absolutely guarantee no STDs for their first pregnancy. After that, other men may take their turn.
I am also skilled at farming. This includes growing and harvesting crops, milking cows, and slaughtering and butchering. I also have mechanical skills, such as auto repair. I suggest brewing moonshine for fuel, which will work best in old carbureted engines.
I know parliamentary procedure, which will be useful in keeping order when someone questions the authority of our leadership. I am also literate, so I can teach children to read as well as read signs and maps left among the ruins of civilization.
If anyone questions the leadership of this merry band, the only order to be kept is whether or not the trial is before or after the execution. Sofaslug doesn’t like it when you question authority.
Ex-EMT / trained firefighter ( you will want firefighters when our villiage of improvised huts is attacked by torch bearing zombies)
Worked on a pig ranch for a few years part time so some livestock care
Natural inertial navigator, I almost never get lost and if I do get out of place I can get back to a nearby known landmark.
Fairly competent pistolero (used to compete in IPSC)
Computer repair.
I’m waaay overweight so I wouldn’t need to be fed for a few months.
Improvised Huts? I’m insulted! With all the people in here with construction and design skills, we should have some solid well-framed rammed-earth-and-concrete buildings up in mere months!
Months? What is this a union job?
I can make arrows and bowstrings. But I’ve never actually finished making a bow. :smack: I also have flintknapping tools, though not much in the way of flintknapping skills.
Oh, and I have a couple of atlatls and darts. So if the mammoths come back post-apocalypse, we’re set.
(I also spin, weave, knit, and crochet, but it sounds like those skills are pretty well covered.)
I am an outdoorsy environmentalist. I can navigate the wilderness, live in a tent, bike or canoe all day long, and recycle plastics and cans. I have adventure guide first aid training (I can set a broken leg, but I’ll probably puke aftwerwards). I have cursory knowledge of anti-biotics and how they work and I own my own stethoscope. I know how to built homes out of adobe, and I can ride horses and I have milked a goat.
And I can juggle.
I also have a great zombie plan.
I’m quite sure silenus will accept me into the band based solely on mutual admiration, but in case that isn’t enough:
- Former U.S. Navy Seabee “We Build, We Fight” (what better motto for post apocalyptic survivors?)
- Expert with both the M-16 and Beretta 9mm
- Professional and amateur brewer (although there is plenty of talent here already)
- Accomplished gardener in Zone 4, and I save seeds
- Lifelong hunter and fisherman
- Experienced raiser of livestock
- I can play 4 songs on the banjo and unless you let me in I will play them at you non-stop
Ahem. Prolly not a real good idea, seeing as how:
Hmmm…can I play the role Harry Dean Stanton did in Escape From New York? I mean, I’d be willing to live in the NY Public Library just like Brain did, too. I’d have more muscles, though, if that helps.
Now, who’s up for Adrienne Barbeau’s role? Ladies?
I’m assuming a standard crew of five. Gimme more people and they’ll go up faster.
I have a fast car, a farm with a cache of fuel and 140 acres of secluded, spring-fed, protected mountain grassland.
Oh and when I’m hungry, I get really mean.
There we go, with one train SeaBee supervising we will have good shelters up for everyone in 2 weeks tops. None of this months crap. Way cool.
I nominate the honorable Mr. West as “Master Chief” of Construction.
Sorry Sunspace, I just saw your post. Could you work with a SeaBee’s style rather than civilian style.
Jim {Yes, I have the utmost respect for Seabees, why do you ask?}
Certainly. I enjoyed that movie too.
I can make sushi of all kinds. Rolls, sashimi, tekka maki, you name it. Who wants to live in a nuclear winter without sushi? Nobody that’s who!
Movie?
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Oops, John Wayne’s the Fighting SeaBees? I forgot about that movie.
I was basing my post on my little bit of Navy interaction with the SeaBees and everything I read about what they did, especially in the pacific theater of WWII and how an Airfield would get bombed in Vietnam and the SeaBees would have it up an running again within 24-48 hours.
Jim
::Ahem:: Accomplished gardener in Zone 3 with cold summer nights and a short growing season.
(Although, frankly, we might all have to move further south to eliminate those pesky winter deaths.)
I was a decent shot last time I tried, I can learn absolutely anything and I can keep my head cool while acting like a total psychopath if necessary. Unfortunately, in terms of actual skills I have pretty much none useful outside civilization, unless you need a storyteller or something.