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[Doxie-Doglover-Too]

have to keep up with Firefighters!

Rick is 53 , works the streets and can still take down the bad guys, kick in a door, and keeps up in foot pursuits, boy does he have stories to tell.

He is 31 years on the job, could retire in 12 days, but COULD doesn't hold much water when there are bills to pay, besides, he'd drive me nuts!

[bradnbecca]

+1 here. 22+ years. I have gotten paid to play with dogs and ride motors!!!!

I still think I have the best job in the world.

Oh, and haven't had a doughnut in years . . . . . . .

Still going strong here. Can't wait for retirement and fulltiming.

[egregg57]

My brother has been a town cop for a long time, involved in SWAT and good stuff like that. He did snag me going through town a bit fast. Gave me a choice take a warning or he told Mom. I took the warning....

[GlenninTexas]

My son is a cop in Ft. Worth.

I don't think police officers can retire now until they've been on an episode of COPS!

Regards, Glenn

[bradnbecca]

My son is a cop in Ft. Worth.

I don't think police officers can retire now until they've been on an episode of COPS!

Regards, Glenn

been there, done that, even got the t-shirt (and cap)

those episodes are still in rerun- it is funny seeing my co workers from when they still had hair ( and when it was some color other than grey !!!!).

[Doxie-Doglover-Too]

My son is a cop in Ft. Worth.

I don't think police officers can retire now until they've been on an episode of COPS!

Regards, Glenn

been there, done that, even got the t-shirt (and cap)

those episodes are still in rerun- it is funny seeing my co workers from when they still had hair ( and when it was some color other than grey !!!!).

I'll have to vote twice to cover it... Won't let me select two categories, or three. Years ago, I was an unpaid aux deputy, before I was a volunteer firefighter. I retired last year from my former city, and volunteered there for some years writing accessible parking tickets.

Oh, and boykid is a cop in Ft Collins, CO. Not pertinent here, but parental pride being what it is, I gotta say he has been put in for their department's Distinguished Service Medal for his work with at-risk kids, which includes running a summer camp for 13-16 year olds, on his own time. We be lucky; we get to hang around and try to be useful for the camp. PK is the kids' drug controller. I keep the gennies and refers running. Gennies run only during the day, BTW!

Little pic there is from the camp area.

Sluggo

[W Podboy]

Reserve Deputy for 27 years.
21 years assigned to Air Rescue as Flight Medic / Crew Chief. Also functioned as SWAT Medic
Also Primary Instructor for Search and Rescue academy....

Wife is also a Reserve Deputy and flew as a Flight Nurse...
We were on bunches of rescue 911 type of shows.... We were the only husband wife team doing Air Rescue in the nation at that time.

Hated doing the shows.... never showed the real story...Oh well, thats Hollywood !!!!

On the other side, I did deliver the first babyborn in a helicopter. They recorded the place of birth as the tailnumber on the helicopter and the address as the longitude , latitude. The named the kid Huey, after the helicopter. aka Baby Huey !!!! sad part, was that the baby was a girl.... Honest !!!!!

Wes

[Doxie-Doglover-Too]

Reserve Deputy for 27 years.
21 years assigned to Air Rescue as Flight Medic / Crew Chief. Also functioned as SWAT Medic
Also Primary Instructor for Search and Rescue academy....

Wife is also a Reserve Deputy and flew as a Flight Nurse...
We were on bunches of rescue 911 type of shows.... We were the only husband wife team doing Air Rescue in the nation at that time.

Hated doing the shows.... never showed the real story...Oh well, thats Hollywood !!!!

On the other side, I did deliver the first babyborn in a helicopter. They recorded the place of birth as the tailnumber on the helicopter and the address as the longitude , latitude. The named the kid Huey, after the helicopter. aka Baby Huey !!!! sad part, was that the baby was a girl.... Honest !!!!!

Wes

Guess they coulda named her Wesley! Weslina? Wesleyann? ha! ha! that girl will spend the rest of her life explaining her name, kinda like the skier Peekaboo. I knew a gal named MYOWN, when she was born after 4 boys, her father held her and said, "I finally have my own little girl.)
what an impressive career! way cool!( I won't go near a helicopter, 2 biggest unexplainable fears in life: Bears and Helicoptors.)

[Katrina]

Raised by a career Military cop here.
Dad retired and found himself a job cuttin grass at the local golf course.
Fast forward a few years and he's back at work full time on the city force, I've yet to figure that one out.

[Doxie-Doglover-Too]

Raised by a career Military cop here.
Dad retired and found himself a job cuttin grass at the local golf course.
Fast forward a few years and he's back at work full time on the city force, I've yet to figure that one out.

you can take the cop out of law enforcement but you can't law enforcement out of the cop........

[hatcityhosehauler]

Well, as you all know from my screen name, I did not go into the family business. My Dad did 30 years on one of the local PD's, and retired a Sgt. My late FIL was a retired NYPD Capt.

If you watch the movie the NYPD's 41st Pct. "Fort Apache, The Bronx" with Paul Newman and Ed Ansner, in one scene, the Capt is holding Roll Call, and there is a chaulk board in the background, my FIL handwriting is all over the board. They filled that at the 40th Pct. in the Bronx, and he was the C.O. there at the time.

Tim

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I won't go near a helicopter, 2 biggest unexplainable fears in life: Bears and Helicoptors.
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Spend enough time with either one, and the "unexplainable" goes away.

Sluggo

[Doxie-Doglover-Too]

[quote name='Sluggo54' date='Mar 3 2007, 03:50 PM' post='194011']
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I won't go near a helicopter, 2 biggest unexplainable fears in life: Bears and Helicoptors.
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Spend enough time with either one, and the "unexplainable" goes away.

Sluggo
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I love animals and I love to fly just not that animal and not that means of transportation! If Life Flight ever has to get me, I'll die enroute from FEAR!