Running out of title ideasWARNING! Righteous Hellion post ahead.
I keep seeing things that remind me why I am such a huge fan of my nation's Armed Forces and the vast majority of those that serve in it. I have a good friend that recently graduated basic at Fort Benning, is Airborne certified, and is currently going through Ranger school. He's one of those guys I'm proud to have fighting out there on my behalf. He's a great representative to us all. He's a guy I am very proud to call a friend. When his term of service is up I'm hoping I can talk him into joining the fight stateside against crime. He'd make an excellent cop. His military experience will only make him more so. He's one of the few people I've ever met with a background clean as mine and the will to fight the forces of evil where ever they may be found. Guys like him remind me I'm not in this alone and we will prevail. Helps more that some of the new guys at my department are high end individuals that came from the Marine Corps. As long as the high caliber guys fight for this side we will prevail. I'd take this one into any fight any day, and the opposition would be in for a rude awakening.
I saw a video on BlackFive today that I thought was pretty much entirely awesome. I hope my friend was there to see it (this is the graduation speech given by LTC White at Fort Benning in April). Maybe I like it because it isn't PC in the slightest. I probably like it because it is true. I'm pretty sure the military fans and those that have served will like it too.
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I was talking to a friend today while hiking up a mountain (maybe girlfriend at some point). We grew up in the same town but went to different high schools. Her dad recently retired as a firefighter, my dad is a businessman. She's an actual chemist, I remain a cop who knows chemistry. Anyway as we were talking we came up with that the forces of good seem to win in the end. Might take a while, might suffer set backs and losses, but the kind of people that it takes to win overwhelmingly join the side of good (I'd put her dad in this category, he's a good guy). In the end its all worth it. The whole freedom isn't free thing. The only price accepted is the blood, sweat, and tears of our bravest and greatest. We've been vastly misinformed on what great is. Rarely do we actually see our greats and recognize them.
I know I'll get moral relativists talking at me in the comments and people that talk about the victors write history and determine what is good. I reference you to the BlackFive link above. That's about my tolerence for such things. Such talk is designed to get the heavy hitters to question their allegience and play on their conscience to remove them from the equation. I see so many from the military who want to come back and put on a badge, fire helmet, or EMT patch, or that have, I see them as essentially saying "I'm not done yet!". I say "Welcome to the team buddy. Coffee is in briefing, mountain dew in the hall."
I've found that the alignment of those who talk about "good and evil as just words" is often quite questionable. More often than not I find them well with the darkness. I may not be a religious guy, but I do believe in good and evil. I believe that what side we choose does matter. Maybe not for some final reward. I'm not expecting a reward, just picked this side because it is the right thing to do. I don't need a return or something in it for me in order to travel this path. The perks are nice, but in no way required.
Again, if you're the type that think guys like me and my friend are the problem, again, I reference the video.
I'm an American. I'm a cop. I fight for the forces of good.
That is all.
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The same goes for all those that are here at home. the police, (some I hate to admit it are doing it becasue they have weird control and power syndroms...) but mostly all are trying to make the world a better place.
It's often been said that you become a cop for the benefits you don't see on your paycheck. You do it because of what the work gives you, not the employer.
I could have been a doctor or scientist and been rich, but I'm called to this path and I would follow no other. As long as I can be comfortable on the pay, there are no worries, the job gives returns that no other will.
Those that are doing it for other reasons stand out and everyone knows who they are.
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That speech is nice
For example: a kid who assaults their parent who has been abusing them for the last 10 years. The exact circumstance is a clearly a violation of law as the kid wasn't in danger at the time, however, they feared for further violence against themselves if they did not act and truthfully it got us involved and may actually serve to stop the attacks against them once and for all. Hard to say "okay, you did nothing wrong kid" but at the same time don't want to tell the parents that they are in the clear as well.
I'm more saying that band does exist for very specific circumstances which I can't always totally line an example out for. It isn't a stark line. There is still a bit of a gradient there. There are ways that the above would nudge pretty easy either way. Such as dad comes home drunk and pissed, takes off his belt and slaps it against the wall in an agressive manner while walking towards the kid, so the kid KOs dad. That puts the kid into reasonable fear for their safety and in my view well into self-defense and Dad the aggressor.
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