Ermey brought his years of experience in the USMC as a Vietnam Vet, Staff Sergeant and 'Hollywood Marine' DI to the silver screen. Ronald Lee Ermey did not 'play' a Marine Corps drill instructor in the movie Full Metal Jacket. And that means you live forever.' Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. But always remember this: Marines die, that's what we're here for. They understand that, once again, officers have been murdered for just being cops. They know the risks, that they are not immune to them. It is my honor and privilege to serve alongside them. Would it surprise you to learn my friend has not missed a year since? None of them have.Īll Millennials.

'How's the weather?' 'Pouring,' she responded. I texted my youngest, then living in the Baltimore suburb of Perry Hall. One posted a picture on Facebook a few years ago, of Baltimore's baseball stadium as she rode by in a driving rain. The trip ends at the Fallen Officer Memorial in Washington. In a few weeks several cycling friends will ride bikes to raise money, and awareness, for fallen officers. Late last year a local officer was killed, and the text/phone/messenger lines hummed between officers in multiple jurisdictions - 'Do you need anything? Are you okay?' He got up early the next morning and came out to help a young recruit qualify at the range. No one wearing a uniform - 'on the job' - has any illusions of what happens sometimes.Ĭops don't take care of cops? A friend, a quality individual, got home from work late one night having been on the scene of an officer involved shooting. Dash and body cam videos replayed in basic, in-service and advanced schools replay the last moments of officers who fell in the line of duty. Recruits taught how to survive the job learn from officers who have lost friends to homicide and suicide.

The men and women currently serving, and those trying desperately to get hired, are far from stupid. Millennials are only in it for a paycheck.' The very first comment on the article I read - 'Cops don't take care of cops any more. Some asshole walked up to them and shot them without provocation.Īs I write this, word is coming over the internet that an NYPD officer has shot himself in the parking lot of a department facility. Taylor Lindsey, at 25, was just getting his career underway.

Murdered for the simple reason that they were deputy sheriffs. Two dudes sitting in a restaurant in Florida, eating lunch. Sergeant John Hitchens, Captain, US Army (ret), police sergeant (ret). There are two fallacies in life that grownups understand - Life is fair, and you are safe.

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