What is the best part about being on SERT?
For me, it was being part of a team, working with guys who were the best of the best, and having a particular skill that is both uncommon and useful. The best part of a callout is when, after hours and hours of negotiations, it’s finally time to do something, whether it’s gas the house, make an entry, deliver a throw-phone, or anything, as long as it’s action of some sort. 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
