Hatchet Man said:
Just a point Wes, Brinks does hire younger 20somethings (myself included when I was 22) mainly Police Foundations students, using the lure that this can be used as a step to the police ( :
) That said employment is conditional upon passing a 5 pratical shooting course, which for some can be "intense" (considering they may never have fired a pistol, let alone been on a structured range.), especially when one of the trainers for the GTA is a MCpl in the QOR.
I was 25, the others were well into their 40's, as they looked for life expereince, older people, all married and settled. Not some hoon and pisshead wannabee rogue. Attitude means everything, and first impressions count. The Regina Police always looked down at us, often refering to us as Dirty Harry wannabees. I would not consider the 'Crewman, Armoured Truck' a stepping stone to the police career wise. That was 20yrs ago, and the pay was crap then for the risks taken (about 12.00/hr), two man crews when there should have been three, etc - of course all cost cutting by cowardly gutless management, and was one of many the reasons why I got out of it.
It was simply an armoured courior, entrusted with cash (and there was lots - you know what I mean), and other cheques, valuables, etc. It did however keep you in good stead in responsibility, and related subject matter field. For the most of my time in that profession, I did the entire gambit. Drove, guarded and did the crewchief thing, plus some ATM servicing, and doing all the firearms training and firearms maintenance for the entire province. I do hope you get where I am coming from. There can be 22 yr olds with the maturity and responibility well beyond their years, and of course vise vera, but in general, younger aged people were not hired. It was policy, at least in 1985.
Either way, this guy sends up a dirty great big big red WARNING flag, and that we can agree on. As I said in a previous post, I work along guys in their 20s here, some in command of AFVs worth a couple of million bucks, and they have had to make snap decisons on things I can't comment on here. I admire them for the courage, tenacity, and quick thinking.
You get where I am coming from?
If this Ronnie bloke somehow falls through the cracks and find himself enlisted in a military force, his instructors, if not his peers will sort him out, all the way the door, frogmarched of course. He'll be eaten by his own kind, and they will!
At the end of the day, on my first response to him, I was trying to attempt to give him some worthwhile advise, and his cockhead attitute brought out his true colours.
Any Force, even the 'mall police' would be better off without him.
Regards from Baghdad,
Wes
