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    I walked into the precinct to drop off a report and the desk officer was looking at the TV strangely.

    I asked what was up and she said a plane had crashed into a building in NYC.

    I looked at the TV and saw a ground camera showing the smoke and flame. The caption read "Possible small plane crash into the WTC."

    I said "That's no small plane". Just then then camera swerved and caught the second airplane fly into the second tower.

    "That's a terrorist attack" I was sick and angry but not astonished until the next day.

    I came into work and the same (black) female was on the desk. I asked her casually was there any new information...this was less than 24 hours later.

    She looked me in the eye "You mean the attack that your president ordered?" I was struck speechless.

    So it was that fast.

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    Quote Originally Posted by paherne View Post
    ...When the first sims rounds started flying, I planted every round I could in that fat lieutenant's ass, every chance I got, all day long. Turns out I wasn't the only one doing it...
    I was grinding teeth at some of the brass reactions in this thread. Thanks for taking the edge off before my dentist got some extra work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SCCY Marshal View Post
    I was grinding teeth at some of the brass reactions in this thread. Thanks for taking the edge off before my dentist got some extra work.
    A few times in my career as a Sgt., I have taken aside a Lieutenant and told them, "Its my job to support you and ensure you are successful, which is why I'm telling you that you're massively fucking up here. No one is gonna have your back if you continue down this path." It usually worked because by then they knew that I really was trying to ensure they were successful. The few that didn't listen, didnt last at that assignment.

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    I had just transferred to the full time SWAT squad from patrol. 9/11 was literally my first day in that assignment. I was sleeping and my wife woke me up to tell me a plane had hit the WTC. I got up and started watching the live feed. I watched the second plane hit and I knew it was intentional. I watched TV for awhile then I went to my work car and started checking my gear. I called my boss to see if we were getting called in. He said not yet but get ready to go. I went in at the normal time and we sat around waiting.
    Just a dog chauffeur that used to hold the dumb end of the leash.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SCCY Marshal View Post
    I was grinding teeth at some of the brass reactions in this thread. Thanks for taking the edge off before my dentist got some extra work.
    It’s sad but it’s almost universal in LE Lieutenants are managers not leaders. A lot seem overwhelmed and don’t like making decisions. Most are quick to say no because that doesn’t get them in trouble. In 32 years I can count 6-8 I’d say were leaders. There one I’d follow to Hell with a bucket if he said we were going to put out the fire.

    ETA I’d shoot that dude in the ass too...
    Just a dog chauffeur that used to hold the dumb end of the leash.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coyotesfan97 View Post
    It’s sad but it’s almost universal in LE Lieutenants are managers not leaders. A lot seem overwhelmed and don’t like making decisions. Most are quick to say no because that doesn’t get them in trouble. In 32 years I can count 6-8 I’d say were leaders. There one I’d follow to Hell with a bucket if he said we were going to put out the fire.

    ETA I’d shoot that dude in the ass too...
    In my career I was fortunate enough to have one supervisor that I felt that way about. He wasn't even from my agency, he was from DEA and was the supervisor of the group I was assigned to in the Florida Joint Task Group for a period of time. (I'd have given anything had he been there for the entire three or four years I spent there.)

    He was a leader in the Marines as well, as I recall. Men like him will always be rare imho, and it was a privilege to serve and make cases alongside him, and proudly become his friend. (Good thing too, because the other DEA supes I worked for couldn't hold his jock.)
    There's nothing civil about this war.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SCCY Marshal View Post
    I was grinding teeth at some of the brass reactions in this thread. Thanks for taking the edge off before my dentist got some extra work.
    By the end of the day, the guy's back and ass looked like a seat-back in the second to last row of a porno theater; there was every color of the rainbow sim round you can get, so I wasn't the only one taking the odd pot shot at his posterior.

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    Originally written on 9/11/05:
    I was attending a meeting in midtown Manhattan at 44th and 5th Avenue. Just before going into the meeting, I saw a TV news report that a plane had crashed into the WTC. However, I only glanced at the screen and it was difficult to get any perspective regarding the size of plane. While I informed everyone, we went ahead with the meeting. A short time later, someone arrived at the meeting late and said that he had just seen the second plane fly into the 2nd tower. At that time, we realized that the US was under attack. Finally, someone received a call on his cell phone and announced that the first tower had collapsed and that the Pentagon had also been hit. We suspended the meeting and tried to contact our families to let them know we were okay. By then, it was difficult to get a call out. We all went back to our rooms and watched TV -- it was truly horrible to realize that so many people were dead and dying just 3-4 miles away. I went outside once to see which way the wind was blowing -- I was concerned that there might be a chemical element to the attack. (In hindsight, that wasn't very smart.) I ended up catching a train from Penn Station the next afternoon to return to my home in Virginia. I was quite worried about a follow-on attack at Penn Station, but there didn't seem to be any other way to get out. On the train out of NYC, there was still a lot of smoke rising from ground zero. It was a sobering sight that I will never forget.

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    I was at in service training at Westmoreland County Community College, in Youngwood Pennsylvania. We were told a plane hit the first tower. The brought a TV in and we saw both crashes. Someone in the class was on the phone with Westmoreland 911, and they were told a plane was circling Mount Pleasant which is a few miles a way. Minutes later Flight 93 went down. People in Youngwood had reported hearing a loud plane fly low over the town.

    Later I would find out that a private pilot I knew was flying that morning. He was asked to confirm that 93 was down and to return to Latrobe immediately. A lot of friends stood guard at Shanksville.

    I'll never forget that day.

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