MISSION STATEMENT
The EMS Angels Motorcycle Club development was the personal inspiration of Manny Oliveria, a 20 year Paramedic and avid motorcyclist from New Jersey.
The goals of the EMS Angels of Alabama MC are to aid the community through productive charity work and positive outreach programs including all EMS personnel; to promote the brotherhood and sisterhood of EMS providers through our love of owning and riding motorcycles; and to fulfill our commitment to the community by standing ready at all times to render medical care to the sick and injuried regardless of race, color or creed.
We are a non-territoral, neutral club. All participating activities sponsored by the EMS Angels of Alabama MC organization will always be lawful.
Active member of the Alabama Confederation of Motorcycle Clubs (Alabama COC).
The EMS Angels Patch.
Our patch depicts St.Micheal over the Star of Life and with a caduceus entwined around him. St. Micheal the Archangel is the patron saint of police, firefighters and EMS personnel. In Catholicism, St. Micheal is the defender, the bearer of truth and the avenger of wrong. He is often depicted in art and history as bearing a sword or a staff. He wields the sword and staff against the devil and evil. He is usually perceived as a winged angel with either staff or sword raised and ready for battle.
Our patch depicts the angel with a hidden face with wings and staff raised. He is standing before the Star of Life, the traditional symbol or paramedicine. The six arms represent Detection, Reporting, Response, On-Scene Care, Care in Transit and Delivery to Definitive Care. Two arms are morphed into cylinders, representative of care in transport. The angel is positioned behind the caduceus, the traditional symbol of healing and medicine. The caduceus in classic Greek mythology refers to the staff of Hermes who was the God of messages, alchemy and the deliverer of the dead to the underworld. The US Army was the first ones to depict the staff with medicine in 1902 when it was made to depict the Army Medical Corps. The classic staff of medicine is the Staff of Asclepius of the god Asclepius, son of Apollo. Both have contributed to the standard interpretation of the two snakes (or one) wrapped around a pole as being a symbol of healing.
History and information provided by Marcus Minmaugh and Jeremy Cohran, EMS Angels MC of California.
Our patch is surrounded by our club name EMS Angels and each members certifed levels, top and bottom respectively. It is earned once prospects complete their probationary period and remains property of the club. The EMS Angels MC of Alabama, respecting the wishes of the Alabama COC, do not display a regional bottom rocker. We are a non-territoral, neutral club.
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We pledge no allegiance to any certain motorcycle manufacturer.
