Det 4 Virtual Zoom Drill 1500 on Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Det 4 Virtual Zoom Drill 1500 on Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Det 4 Marines

In these unprecedented times, I hope you're all well and staying productive during the lockdown. Still, we Marines are tough and it will take more than a virus to bring us down.

Under the heading of taking care of each other, keeping alive our Det 4 esprit and beginning a discussion on the September reunion in Annapolis, let's report aboard Zoom for a virtual drill at 1500 EDT.(That's 6 bells in the afternoon watch for squids, 3 pm Eastern time for those who've forgotten military time, or for us time-challenged Marines, Mickey's little hand is on the 3.)

By now, most of you will probably have done a Zoom meeting. But, if you haven't it's very easy. 

Step 1: Download the Zoom app on your PC, Mac, iPad or whatever screen you want to use that has a camera and microphone built in. If you're on a Mac, go to the app stoer and download for free ZOOM Cloud meetings.  The icon is blue with a white video camera in it. If you have a PC, go to zoom.us/download. 

Step 2. After downloading the app, click on it. You'll get the meeting screen where you can test your camera and microphone.  This is recommended in advance of our Zoom drill so that we don't have a flail-ex.

Step 3. In advance of the drill, next Monday you'll get another email that will be an invitation to the Zoom drill. On Tuesday at 1500 EDT click on the link to go to the meeting. Your face will pop up in the screen, then you'll be joined to the meeting.  (No need to open the Zoom app. It's in the software background. Clicking on the meeting link automatically launches it.). Make sure that your video is on, your computer microphone is enabled and your mute is off.  In the upper right corner you'll see two views, speaker or gallery.  Click on Gallery view.  That will allow you to see all the Det 4 Zoomers. 

That's all there is to it. Reply to this email to let us know it you'll be on it or if you need an excused absence (which will require you to do 10 bends-and-thrusts on your honor.)

See you next Wednesday at 1500

Semper Fi,

Drew Davis

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Andrew B. Davis

Major General USMC (Ret