Tag: police

• Finding Myself and My Place

  Osterville, Ma Featured in Bartlett Tree Topics – Autumn/Winter 2023 internal employee magazine I still scan rooftops. Hypervigilance is a behavioral pattern that the Global War on Terrorism imprinted on many veterans. A combatant high on a roof can be part of an attack, so scanning for threats helped keep us safe. Habits like this…

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  January 9, 2024

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  Arboriculture, Bartlett Tree Experts, cape cod, combat veteran, crewmenber, forests, growth, Integrated Pest Management, nature, police, PTSD, teamwork, Tree work, trees, usda, veteran, writing

• Sorry I Tased You

  

  At 1145, December 31, 2013, I started work like any other night. Sometimes, holidays are hectic to work as a police officer, but sometimes, they are eerily quiet. Having completed the Plymouth Municipal Police Training Center in December 2011, I had already finished the hundreds of hours the Commonwealth of Massachusetts requires to be a…

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  October 30, 2023

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• From Birds(?) to Birds(!)

  

  From Birds(?) to Birds(!) 2012 Ending patrol for the day at 7:45 AM, I was in my last field training phase to become a Barnstable Police Officer. One of the only tasks I needed to have signed off on was the “Unattended Death.” During our initial training, Michael the white-haired long-time training commander, would speak…

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  April 4, 2023

  birding, PTSD, Uncategorized

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