This edition has updated material on the National Incident Management System, National Response Plan, National Response Framework, and National Fire Protection Association Standard 1600; coverage of the World Trade Center Site litigation and effects on responders; more on post-traumatic stress disorder; expanded and updated material on the history, ...
Mesocycles are typically 3 to 4 weeks in length but can be a bit longer. Two very common mesocycles are 21 and 28-day training blocks. I will provide an example of a training plan with 21-day mesocycles in my next post.
(The IRS later updated the methodology using an IBM study in the early 2000s.) The figures have increased over time, perhaps reflecting increasing complexity: In 1992, the 1040 form was estimated to take an average of about 10 hours to complete, and in 2004 about 13 hours, compared to the 16 hours today.