Week one ended at 3:30 pm today. It has been a busy week with the administrative things that needed to be taken care of combined with course work and physical training. I can say that the five classes I have are all interesting and worthwhile. I posted earlier about stopping at the Flight 93 crash site. Today in Forensics we were shown photos of the crash scene and an explanation of how the FBI Evidence Recovery Team worked the scene...quite impressive and having stopped there on the way to Quantico made it make more sense. Looking forward to explanations of the JonBenet Ramsey case (yes, the parents did do it) and the OJ case.
The media course will include a debriefing by the spokesman from the Connecticut State Police who handled the media at the scene of the school shooting in Newtown. I'm taking an officer-involved shooting course which will probably result in some changes to our current policy. The FBI has an area called "Hogan's Alley" which is the gold standard for realistic firearms training and judgmental shooting. Very impressive facility. I wish we had something even remotely like this in the Midwest.
Another course is called Contemporary Issues in Law Enforcement which is a discussion based look at current topics effecting law enforcement both nationally and internationally. Funny how some personnel issues in Gibraltar (yes, the Rock) are not much different than in La Vista!
The physical training course is an eye opener. Not so much showing improvement needed, but the style of training and the best way to do it. The PT instructor has found a way to stretch every muscle in my lower body in ways unknown to my muscles. I took about 14 months to get in shape for this training and I'm glad I did, but if I would have known the correct way to train that journey would have been more efficient. Sprints and stress-recovery-stress combined with a crossfit type workout is the new standard. A fifty year old should not be training like a 35 yr old. That being said, one classmate was carted off to the hospital by squad this afternoon with chest pains...we all hope he's ok! That makes at least 2 classmates this week taken to the hospital. Word was 13 or more were in sick bay yesterday with flu-like symptoms...one went to the hospital dehydrated.
The FBI HRT (Hostage Rescue Team) is housed here. There has been alot of training activity (helicopters, explosions, etc) going on in preparation for the Inauguration. Very impressive stuff. We are well protected.
The sun did make an appearance today. First time I've seen sunlight since last Thursday in Omaha. The weather experts here must have cut their teeth in Omaha ...we were suppossed to get Snowmageddon (4-8 inches) yesterday....ended up with light rain...no snow.
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