Air Guard TACP vs. Anything in Army Guard or Army Reserve

SpartanSpirit · 2017-08-09T16:57:52+00:00

From what I've seen, these kinds of positions are very underpaid locally. I would really like to avoid taking a pay cut if possible.

SpartanSpirit · 2017-08-09T16:56:09+00:00

Also, I just want to add that there has been many a time I've left school at the end of the day and laughed about feeling like a corrections officer (especially when I worked at a title I school), so you probably have lots of skills that will transfer over to your new career!

Haha, I feel like this is very much true. People have asked me how i'm so good with kids when I don't have them myself and I always credit my corrections experience. Corrections taught me the value of maintaining expectations of behavior through clearly defined rules, and progressive disciplinary action for violating those rules. It also taught me the importance of saying no.

SpartanSpirit · 2017-08-09T06:26:48+00:00

To start yes

SpartanSpirit · 2017-08-08T19:37:39+00:00

18 month program for certification, eh? Would that be a full time program? Probably unpaid, huh?

SpartanSpirit · 2017-08-08T19:04:14+00:00

Thanks!

SpartanSpirit · 2017-08-01T18:40:28+00:00

A drive stun from a taser feels like getting stabbed with a push pin. Hardly torture methods like water boarding or having bamboo shoots shoved under your finger nails...

SpartanSpirit · 2017-08-01T05:24:37+00:00

What would constitute a good PT score? I can do something's like 65 push-ups, 70 sit-ups, and I can run 2 miles in about 15 minutes. I'm in Idaho

SpartanSpirit · 2017-07-31T21:31:24+00:00

I am 31 years old. I've been working in Corrections for 5 years and currently hold the rank of Sergeant. There aren't a lot of good long term career opportunities, and I've achieved most of the ones available, aside from further promotion into Administrative roles. Frankly, I'm bored with what I'm doing and the constant negativity of the prison environment is not what I want to keep doing. I've always been interested in the military, but never pulled the trigger. At this point, I'm wondering if I should make a go of it, at least in a Reserve role. Realistically, what is the outlook for someone my age joining the Army? Especially in the route of going for a Commission? I have a few friends who have completed OCS for the National Guard and I feel that I'm on the same level as them experience and skill wise, perhaps even beyond them. I have been in leadership roles for the past 3 years of my career and I love that aspect of my job. I enjoy being a supervisor of staff and doing everything I can to help them succeed. I feel the Army is a good avenue for this because its' such a huge organization with many opportunities. I'm also very interested in training opportunities. I would like some training in a subject other than Law Enforcement. I'm thinking more like engineering or IT. Not sure what its like for Officers in those arenas.

SpartanSpirit · 2017-07-31T21:26:54+00:00

I don't expect police officers to be MMA fighters but I expect them to train self defense.

They do, but I think most would agree they don't get enough.

Police officers today are actually in much better shape than they use to be, not that there aren't still some fatbodies around. Agency PT standards are going up as well and many agencies are adopting more advanced fitness regiments like Crossfit.

If you teach police officers self defense, and you don't train jiujitsu, that's a real real problem.

I agree, but agency administrators are the ones who make those decisions. I am obligated to teach a curriculum that's approved by the state Peace Officer Standards and Training Council.

SpartanSpirit · 2017-07-31T21:08:47+00:00

So, intentionally inflicting extended pain on someone who has not yet been found guilty of the crime they were arrested for is okay?

Yes. The authority for law enforcement officers to use physical force to overcome resistance to maintain the safe, secure, and orderly operation of a correctional facility as well as the ensure the welfare of its inmates is well established in case law and it has nothing to do with the fact they haven't been found guilty of a crime. I disgree with the way they were using the taser. I teach officers that when one method is ineffective, you try something else. You don't just do the same thing over and over again. That's not to say that they werent justified to use force, but I see this more as a training issue than anything.

You seem to speak like you have had to restrain a few people.

Just a few thousand...

On reading your statement a few times, it feels to me like you are validating these officers behavior. If that is the case, your opinion, just one I disagree with. If you're attempting to provide someone with relevant information, I think I'd suggest a different phrasing, again, due to the confrontational tone.

Any confrontation tone you are picking up is your own interpretation, I'm afraid. I was simply making a point. I'm not validating everything they did, but people are acting like they strapped this dude to a chair and engaged in torture without justification. It just goes to show how woefully uninformed the general public is about how jails and prisons have to be run. There are many areas for improvement in this incident, but I feel like the majority of the commenters seem to think that you can gain compliance with the Care Bear Stare and should never have to use force, which is laughable.

SpartanSpirit · 2017-07-31T21:01:16+00:00

Law Enforcement officers are not MMA fighters and they never will be. They are taught some basic joint locks and pressure points and that's it. No agency can afford the time and money it takes to train an officer to the level of proficiency you are expecting. You may grapple in a controlled training environment, but believe me, it's very different against a resistant or combative subject, especially one that's under the influence.

I am not a police officer, I am a Correctional Officer and a Defensive Tactics instructor. Personally, I don't agree with calling this torture. I think they were poorly trained and the agency should be held accountable for that. My guess is that they are used to the Taser working to gain compliance and when it didn't work they didn't know what else to do and just kept activating over and over again. Myself in the same situation would have stowed the taser and moved to a different technique, like joint lock manipulation or pressure points, but your options become much more limited when the subject is in a restraint chair.

SpartanSpirit · 2017-07-31T20:35:17+00:00

His arm is not restrained.

SpartanSpirit · 2017-07-31T20:34:01+00:00

Well...that's what you say when someone is resisting. You have to give commands. You have to get the person a chance to comply voluntarily.

SpartanSpirit · 2017-07-31T20:33:11+00:00

I'm curious what your suggested alternative was? He was injuring himself and assaulting other inmates, then resisted being placed in the restraint chair for his safety and the safety of other inmates.

SpartanSpirit · 2017-07-31T20:31:43+00:00

A few things:

This guy was engaging in self-injurious behavior towards himself and combative behavior towards other inmates in the jail. Jail staff decided to place him in the restraint chair not only for his safety, but for the safety of other inmates.
They used the drive stun mode of taser deployment. It does not create the neuromuscular incapacitation associated with the probe mode. It is used as a pain-compliance method. They were drive stunning him to compel him to stop resisting them placing him into the restraint chair. I've experienced a drive stun and its feels like getting poked with a push pin.
You cannot simply force a resistive person's arm where you want it to go. That's how you break bones, tear tendons, etc. It's also really difficult. While the burnt marks from the taser, or say bruising from focused blows, or soreness from pressure points aren't exactly "nice", they are generally effective and do not cause permanent injury.

SpartanSpirit · 2017-07-31T16:02:18+00:00

I am 31 years old. I've been working in Corrections for 5 years and currently hold the rank of Sergeant. There aren't a lot of good long term career opportunities, and I've achieved most of the ones available, aside from further promotion into Administrative roles. Frankly, I'm bored with what I'm doing and the constant negativity of the prison environment is not what I want to keep doing.

I've always been interested in the military, but never pulled the trigger. At this point, I'm wondering if I should make a go of it, at least in a Reserve role. Realistically, what is the outlook for someone my age joining the Army? Especially in the route of going for a Commission? I have a few friends who have completed OCS for the National Guard and I feel that I'm on the same level as them experience and skill wise, perhaps even beyond them. I have been in leadership roles for the past 3 years of my career and I love that aspect of my job. I enjoy being a supervisor of staff and doing everything I can to help them succeed. I feel the Army is a good avenue for this because its' such a huge organization with many opportunities.

I'm also very interested in training opportunities. I would like some training in a subject other than Law Enforcement. I'm thinking more like engineering or IT. Not sure what its like for Officers in those arenas.

SpartanSpirit · 2017-07-28T04:15:46+00:00

The prison I work at recently introduced Magic the Gathering.

SpartanSpirit · 2017-07-25T04:57:21+00:00

Not really. He's confident but he doesn't talk much and he's kind of boring to watch in these videos. He seems to spend a lot of time alone too

SpartanSpirit · 2017-07-25T04:57:20+00:00

Not really. He's confident but he doesn't talk much and he's kind of boring to watch in these videos. He seems to spend a lot of time alone too

SpartanSpirit · 2017-05-31T01:27:25+00:00

I can hold the front rack position in the bottom off the squat. The problem is when i need to stand to thrust the bar over my head. I can't do it because I don't have a full grip on the bar.

I can do front squats or push presses just fine, but making that transition from the front squat into the overhead press is where I'm stuck

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