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KRM45 wrote:Thanks for the insight. TX, I appreciate your post. I know there are jobs at least as hazardus as law enforcement though.

I appreciate the comment on the military too. I've been out for 7 years, but after 9 years of service, I too have been temted to re-enlist. It's difficult to convince yourself that you met your obligation as an American when you turn on the news and hear about a few more kids dying over there almos daily. I ask myself sometimes whether my training, knowledge, or just presence could have saved even one of them...

I now have a wife and two kids that I need to think about, but I am still drawn to serve God, County and now Community. I've applied in the town I live in, and I've passed the written, fitness, and B-PAD. I have an oral board this week. Wish me luck.

Congratulations!

I too fight the urge to again serve my country and help protect my brothers and sisters in arms. I am also torn apart by the fact that I now have a wife and two beautiful children. It does not always let me sleep well.

Its a tough choice bud. I want to go back into the military, but I know if I went in, it'd be doing something stupid dangerous(Ranger, SF, Sniper, LRRP-type stuff). Its in my blood, I am a door kicker, I'm the trigger guy. I knew from a little boy thats what I was born to be.

Now I have a family of four, and a wife who doesn't want to be a widow and mother of children of someone who "died in a training accident". Can't blame her. And I disagree, a job is not always just a job. Call it fate, call it destiny, call it whatever - or call it a way of life. If the shoe fits...

I have found that sometimes the biggest strength is not found in walking the walk, but watching others walk the walk and knowing your responsibilities prevent you from keeping their six clear of BGs. To go to sleep at night, and to rationalize that, can be a beating.