Passed!

[ms spock]

Fantastic news Privateer!

 

[Nicolette]

Congratulations :)

 

[discarded]

Woohoo!!! Well done!!!

 

[safenow]

A chance to be useful again! Actually properly useful!

I so know that feeling. Congratulations again.

it took some getting my head around

As a little old lady with a lot of chronic illness, I've always been grateful to the firemen and women who come to my home. I feel so bad. I've had to call them just to pick me up off the ground when I fell out of my wheelchair. Or pick me up when my blood pressure bottomed out and I crashed onto the floor and put me in my wheelchair.

Over the years, when my PTSD was bad, and I'd freak out and one of my alters would try to kill us, I'd see those good men at my window and I'd freak out even more. I might have cursed you and fought with you, I am sorry. I hope you can forgive people who do that. Trauma can do that to a person. You just keep doing what you need to do.

Bless all those of you who are willing to be front line for those of us who need you. I pray for you all.
Bye the way, I'm a tough old broad with chronic PTSD from multiple traumas. I used to be a front liner as well for the rape crisis center.

 

[amethist]

Well done Privateer.

I hope you enjoy your new found career.

 

[Hashi]

Big congratulations! You've worked hard for it, and you've done really well.

 

[JustBe]

:D:cool: Wahoo! :):D

 

[Deleted member 12723]

Congratulations on passing. Good for you. I bet you feel great.

 

[Whitneys story]

Privateer! Supercalifragilisticexpealadocious. Doing a Mary Poppin's leap for you.

Oh gosh visions of a man in uniform, I bet the Mrs is also loving it! Hugs, Whitney

 

[Privateer]

Thanks, guys. I'm a retained firefighter (auxiliary firefighter, I think they're called in some places?) in the village (well, small town these days) where I live. It means I'm based in the station where my mum works full time in fire safety and inspection, which is kind of strange.

My dad and my sister are/were both cops so I guess this evens it out a bit, eh?

Still a coastguard full-time, so my wife is a bit miffed. She thinks people won't believe I'm real again, like when we first started going out. Apparently when she kept saying 'oh, my boyfriend's a soldier/pilot/whatever' her friends thought she was making me up. :D

 

[Britt.f7]

Awesome job Privateer!

I tried to go into the Coast Guard. Unfortunately, or not, I answered that I had tried to commit suicide many, many years prior in my teens(I was then in my 20's). That disqualified me. I wouldn't have thought to lie. Of course they waited to tell me I was disqualified after all of the physicals. Nothing like humiliating me first.

I still would have liked to be a Coast Guard.

 

[DharmaGirl]

Yay! Isn't it great to feel success! I'm so happy for you!