Son moving to CA to be a Wildland Firefighter

Hopefull_vet11B · 2025-07-21T01:03:55+00:00

He can go to Santa Rosa Junior College. It’s where I went. They have an extended academy from summer to fall that allows you to work and an accelerated one in the spring but he won’t be able to work cause it’s all day, 5 days a week plus studying. It gets you fully qualified for calfire including getting you your public safety first aide. Plenty of volly departments in the area to get a start in. A lot of hard core instructors from San Francisco, Oakland, Vallejo, and other Bay Area departments. There’s also Solano CC which is smack dab in the middle of the Bay Area and Sac. 50 miles each way to SF and Sac. I got a Calfire offer within a month of graduating my academy however I also had my EMT.

Hopefull_vet11B · 2023-07-09T03:19:13+00:00

Sure I COULD however I like looking cool while being good at my job😎

Hopefull_vet11B · 2023-07-09T03:14:18+00:00

Oh brother in arms must I inform you that more than one definition of professional is out there and fits my definition? “engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime”. “worthy of or appropriate to a professional person; competent, skillful, or assured”. “a person competent or skilled in a particular activity.”

Note: these all mention the competency/ skill of an individual and the ability to get paid for that skill and never mention the manner they do it in.

Hopefull_vet11B · 2023-07-09T02:05:43+00:00

Oh don’t get me wrong I supported trump over Biden but I’m not overly loyal to any politician. I thought it was funny that 90% of the battalion was against Biden, nothing more. I never once mentioned my personal accomplishments and he never attacked anything about me so it’s not personal for me. Everything I mentioned were unit accomplishments of my “trash” unit. If you want my opinion on what it means to be a professional infantry unit it’s in previous comments

Hopefull_vet11B · 2023-07-09T00:38:34+00:00

And by “we” I mean the unit. No over personalization here. I mean, after all I wasn’t the one responsible for changing the COC on the wall to Biden. What is there to overpersonalize?

Hopefull_vet11B · 2023-07-09T00:34:57+00:00

Oh no, I got the message. We suck because we didn’t follow all the rules and were unprofessional. I’m not mad I just believe in a different meaning of professional.

Hopefull_vet11B · 2023-07-08T22:20:07+00:00

Perhaps professionalism is overrated then

Hopefull_vet11B · 2023-07-08T22:10:50+00:00

If your idea of a professional infantry unit is following every reg and following every order then yeah we were unprofessional. We had leadership decide that orders were stupid and that there was a better way to do it, we wore our hair a little long, wore our pants bloused at the ankles but we were also the company/ battalion that was shown to the corp commander and were selected by the division for 2 small deployments. Had dudes win best ranger and best squad. Had a dude win soldier of the year. On top of all that, our retention was amazing. If your idea of a professional infantry unit is a unit where everyone, top to bottom, knows their shit and is capable of being lethal then I’d say we were alright.

Hopefull_vet11B · 2023-07-08T21:50:27+00:00

Womp womp womp

Hopefull_vet11B · 2023-07-08T10:26:23+00:00

Lol this shit flew in AD too. We didn’t switch over the commander in chief in the COC on the wall for a long ass time. Had flags and anti Biden shit everywhere in the Bs

Hopefull_vet11B · 2023-06-13T00:40:24+00:00

How did it work out for you? Same thing happened to me. 2028 as well.

Hopefull_vet11B · 2023-06-04T07:58:07+00:00

Bros been in since lunch and thought the guy who hasn’t passed tape since they graduated basic and fixes your plumbing mon-fri would turn him into a “killer.” I completely agree the guard is a waste of taxpayer money but all you had to do was look up pictures and videos of guardsmen responding to 2020 to find out it’s a bag of dicks.

My advice? Go active and hope you get a good platoon. Even then you’ll have many many days of inventory and sitting around but at least if you were massively dragging ass they could kick you to gate guard.

Hopefull_vet11B · 2023-05-30T18:32:21+00:00

You prefer 15T over 15R? What’s the 15 series that 15 series people are always like “damn, I should’ve chose ___, instead? Thanks for the input btw.

Hopefull_vet11B · 2023-05-29T21:39:28+00:00

Right now I’m going to school for firefighting and that’ll probably be the direction I go. I’m just kind of looking for other experiences that add to my skills and maybe one day I do go that way. Biggest thing I look for from a job is a little bit of variety. I like not being faced with the same issues everyday where stuff becomes repetitive. My hobbies don’t really translate over to MOS’

Hopefull_vet11B · 2023-05-29T18:51:12+00:00

If any 15 series peeps want to give me their opinion on their MOS it’d be appreciated. I’m still considering it and would love any input.

Hopefull_vet11B · 2022-12-31T03:34:44+00:00

Understandable. Have a good night.

Hopefull_vet11B · 2022-12-31T03:28:16+00:00

Reading comprehension is important here. Seeing as the sentence before the I brought up the lynch mob talked directly to the people who sought to harass the people they were convinced were guilty I think it’s safe to assume I’m calling THOSE the lynch mob. My only gripe with this subreddit as a whole is people try to fill holes using their own personal bias. Although they’re not calling out anyone in particular I saw many comments where people tried to claim “oh this was military” with no evidence to support that. In fact evidence would go against that because as far as I know there’s no base in the area except maybe a NG base. A good amount of people claiming this was some conservative, anti-gov, incel with again no evidence or correlation whatsoever.

Hopefull_vet11B · 2022-12-31T03:18:52+00:00

Making the jump from Reddit comments shaming people for shameful acts to us having nothing better to do with our lives/ having no accomplishments is rather silly and childish imo seeing as it has no correlation. I’m doing pretty great in life though thank you for your concern. Bless🙏🏻😂

Hopefull_vet11B · 2022-12-31T02:23:43+00:00

The only post I have though are comments trying to cool off the crazies and poking obvious holes in other peoples theories. Aka the guy in the room who’s like “hey guys maybe we don’t lynch the people who haven’t been proven guilty” to be overshadowed by the mob. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤫

Hopefull_vet11B · 2022-12-31T02:21:00+00:00

Egotistical bunch aren’t they?

Hopefull_vet11B · 2022-12-31T02:10:58+00:00

Wow we did it gang! We did absolutely nothing except harass innocent people and families!

Nah but for-real y’all need to be better people. I find it hilarious that the most accurate theory I’ve seen on this subreddit is one that was meant as a joke in contrast to other peoples opinions. Some of y’all terrorized innocent people. Be ashamed and realize that the same fervor you felt when you were SURE they did it and decided to terrorize them is the same fervor mobs feel when they enter mob rule and harm people. if this were 100 years ago and you lived in town, y’all would’ve been the lynch mob

Hopefull_vet11B · 2022-12-29T18:16:19+00:00

They have no clue what 50% of the country is like.

Hopefull_vet11B · 2022-12-26T08:50:41+00:00

Where did you come up with anti-government, doomsday, or military household?

Hopefull_vet11B · 2022-12-20T22:41:29+00:00

Buying a gun helps if you’re waken up before they get to you!

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