What is the worst part?
There are a few “worst parts.” The biggest one that comes to mind is discomfort. There’s nothing like sitting around a warm kitchen carving pumpkins with your kids on Halloween while a fierce rainstorm howls outside one minute, then find yourself laying in a four-inch deep puddle on top of thorny blackberry bush vines in forty five degree weather while the storm lashes at you for six hours the next minute. Or laying on a concrete balcony on the hottest recorded day in May from 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. under a blistering sun with no shade staring at a window through the scope with no real relief. Or trying to keep your eyes open and focused on the blackness in the scope until dawn after working a twelve-hour patrol shift, and not being able to see anything until first light. Need I go on? You always refer to SERT “guys.” Can women be on the team? Yes, women can be SERT officers, and can even be better ones then the men. Just as women were rare in police work twenty years ago, women are r
There are a few “worst parts.” The biggest one that comes to mind is discomfort. There’s nothing like sitting around a warm kitchen carving pumpkins with your kids on Halloween while a fierce rainstorm howls outside one minute, then find yourself laying in a four-inch deep puddle on top of thorny blackberry bush vines in forty five degree weather while the storm lashes at you for six hours the next minute. Or laying on a concrete balcony on the hottest recorded day in May from 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. under a blistering sun with no shade staring at a window through the scope with no real relief. Or trying to keep your eyes open and focused on the blackness in the scope until dawn after working a twelve-hour patrol shift, and not being able to see anything until first light. Need I go on? You always refer to SERT “guys.” Can women be on the team? Yes, women can be SERT officers, and can even be better ones then the men. Just as women were rare in police work twenty years ago, women are r
