Personal Achievement

gettysburgfreak · 12-18-2009, 05:49 PM

I'm not the type to flaunt my accomplishments but today I am feeling very proud of something I set out to do and wanted to share.

Today marked the last day of the first part of the US Border Patrol Academy and I am set to graduate on Monday with 21 other classmates. This was the most difficult thing I had ever attempted in my life. It was challenging physically but even more so mentally. The amount of information we had to learn in 55 days was very intense and at times extremely overwhelming. We had applied authority classes, naturalization, and immigration law classes, driving, shooting, arrest techniques, offensive and defensive techniques, survival swimming, first aid and CPR, as well as a few other odds and ends classes that pertained to the job. We also had to get OC sprayed which was the worst pain I had ever felt in my life. Each day was a challenge and feel extremely lucky to have made it through especially after having rolled my ankle severely on the second week of physical training.

Now for 9 weeks of learning Spanish.

12-18-2009, 05:49 PM	#1
gettysburgfreak Patriot Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: The Mitten Posts: 1,442 Trading: (2)	Personal Achievement I'm not the type to flaunt my accomplishments but today I am feeling very proud of something I set out to do and wanted to share. Today marked the last day of the first part of the US Border Patrol Academy and I am set to graduate on Monday with 21 other classmates. This was the most difficult thing I had ever attempted in my life. It was challenging physically but even more so mentally. The amount of information we had to learn in 55 days was very intense and at times extremely overwhelming. We had applied authority classes, naturalization, and immigration law classes, driving, shooting, arrest techniques, offensive and defensive techniques, survival swimming, first aid and CPR, as well as a few other odds and ends classes that pertained to the job. We also had to get OC sprayed which was the worst pain I had ever felt in my life. Each day was a challenge and feel extremely lucky to have made it through especially after having rolled my ankle severely on the second week of physical training. Now for 9 weeks of learning Spanish. __________________ Author ofeath, Disease, and Life at War: The Civil War Letters of Surgeon James D. Benton, 111th and 98th New York Infantry Regiments, 1862-1865.