Airmen are brought face to face with consequences of poor decisions Published Dec. 16, 2011 By Senior Airman Lauren Main 15th Wing Public Affairs JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii- -- The gentle hum of whispers filling the auditorium of the Hickam base theater died down as a slideshow began. The unmistakable crackle of a recorded 9-1-1 responder call grabbed everyone's attention. "I have a possible drunk driver in critical condition. Vital signs are weak..." The slideshow began to filter through images of horrific, traumatic accidents: bodies lying on the side of the road, lifeless people on the hood of their own cars, and scenes that were enough to leave some with nightmares. As the slide show ended, Joeseph McCluan, assistant director of Florida Safe inc., took the stage. "We didn't show you those pictures to scare you," he said. "And believe me, all of them were real, I wish they weren't. But we showed these to you, to show you what happens when you don't wear your seatbelt, when you drink and drive or answer the text message that takes your life." McCluan and his fellow fire fighter paramedic, Scott Neusch, are members of Florida Safe Inc., an organization that travels the world speaking to young people about safety. Recently, they traveled to Oahu and gave safety presentations to military installations around the island including Camp Smith, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, and Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. The statistics presented to the room during the presentation were alarming, and the numbers were bound to affect a portion of the Airmen in attendance. "One in every hundred people dies from some type of traumatic accident," said McCluan. "That means at least two of you in here will be a victim." The Airmen were speechless. As the presentation progressed and the facts became more sobering, the audience became enthralled with what they were seeing, but no one more so than Senior Airman Justin Oglesby, assigned to the 324th Intelligence Squadron. Oglesby was called upon to be a volunteer to help demonstrate what paramedics must go through to save the life of a victim who was critically injured in a car accident in which they weren't wearing their seatbelt. McCluan set the stage for the scenario and presented the circumstances to the audience. In the hypothetical scenario, Oglesby was returning from a party, intoxicated, when he answered a text message. The brief distraction from the road caused Oglesby to crash his car into an oncoming vehicle, causing, Oglesby, who was not wearing his seatbelt, to fly through the windshield of his car. The paramedics painted a grim picture in separate outcomes. During one, Oglesby died and the paramedics had to notify his family. During the second scenario, Oglesby lived and had to undergo painful, life-saving measures in order to live the rest of his life in a wheelchair. "Being on the table was the most impactful part of that presentation for me," said Oglesby. "I will definitely refrain from texting and driving in the future."