Posted on 06/27/2014 2:37:10 PM PDT by Fitzy_888
huh?
Good luck to you...I hope that peace comes to you....
(I still have dreams of Vietnam)
That’s messed up.
I wonder how first reponders like this don’t have PTSD and other issues like returning soldiers. I’m guessing many do.
Thank you for what you and all firemen and police do for us.
so dear fireman....spare us....you're lucky you can get out after 20 yrs...
Spare me....
Makes you wonder what happens to people when "active shooter" drills are conducted and enacted by emergency response teams - without first telling everyone it's a drill and getting their agreement to participate.
Does it frighten them? Does their fear matter? Well, if you frighten a cop he can shoot you dead merely because you frightened him. But when a massive part of the emergency response government teams create a psyop designed to convince you that a crazy person is, in fact, murdering people all around you...
...hey - get over it.
And if you don't, you can't sue anybody, because it's the government. And if you get PTSD or any other problem, you get no support for it. And if you get out a gun to defend yourself from an insane shooter, and the cops see you trying - why, they'll shoot you dead.
To protect everyone from what they fooled you into believing by creating a level of stress in you that - if it was done to them - would have resulted in them killing people to "eliminate the threat."
And why?
To protect everyone from terrorism.
One of the reasons that so many apparently healthy men retire at 50 from that job. The taxpayer in me says stuff like “why the hell should someone retire at 50-60 with that kind of income and benefits” and/or “that’s what you signed on for, buddy”....but how many could really do that job after 20 years like he just described?
I know I couldn’t do it.
God bless YOU! Firemen, while at times it might be rough, have nothing on floor nurses. My wife has been one over twenty years. The crap you have to put up with from patients, families, interns, doctors etc., on a daily basis is amazing.
Public pensioners can go piss up a rope.
Interesting.
I just 7 short replies, we see a range of replies from sympathy and compassion to this individual to “suck it up, crybaby.”
I have a friend who is a fire fighter. I asked him how he could handle it. He told me you get used to it.
If you've had enough, then retire. I for one wouldn't blame you. But I never would have been in that line of work to begin with.
Not sure where you where you live but in WA state can retire at 53 as a cop...good luck living in that state nice we dont make 50% after 20....and we dont get medical either...same boat as you baby....
So, you can retire from firefighting when you’re 50 but you still have to work somewhere as you can’t collect the retirement until you’re 60-65YO, yes?
Great screename..stupid post...no active shooter training happens without telling people ahead of time....unless you live someplace with the absolute dumbest peole on the planet in charge.
By the way...thanks for your service...I love nurses....and not just cuz they are hot and bring me morphine when i get rupture my paella tendon chasing someone at work.....;)
Busy mostly cuz your hot.....:)
And you retired at the age of 45????
A typical employee in the private sector such as the auto industry (me) could never retire with only 20 years seniority until I was 60 years old..........
Wish I could have retired at 40 with half pay. Wish I could retire at 70 with half pay.
My nephew ia a paramedic in New Orleans. Katrina was his baptism of fire. Now,9 years later, he`s just about burned out at 32. I`m encouraging him to write a first-person book. What first responders see is horrific. Prayers for you all!
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