Recent content by Allen

Just after my 10th year in LE and getting promoted to corporal 2days earlier I was on patrol after having done all my paperwork. Trying to stay awake at 3:30am I got into a pursuit with a stolen car. I chased the car until he crashed and ran the driver down and caught him as he was trying to...

Exactly Fred and that’s a hell of a long time to do the job. Well done sir. I admire your commitment to our profession. This year would’ve been my 30th. I wish I would’ve had more but it wasn’t meant to be.

I may not remember that Doc but I’m a child of the 80s and the images of the egg in the frying pan are seared into my memory in the this is your brain commercials.

As with a few others on this forum I was a street cop for 10years and 2 more in training after I was shot 4 times by a sociapth and psychopath, drug dealer/user and all around dirt bag banger. He was not crazy. In my experience in a smaller city of about 100k most mental illness occurred from...

I was a police officer for 12 years and was in a couple shootings. The first was a chase and he as shooting at me with a shotgun as we were driving. Crazy. He stopped and I put two through the back window at this head. I thought I hit him but because he disappeared behind the sea. The shotgun...

I had one and it slipped down and ran into my magazine and dented. I pounded it gently out and put two strips of electrical tape cross ways across the grip high and low and the checkered panel bites into the tape and will not slip. It was sharp so I just took an emery board, my wife’s nail...

My Dad was on the Ranger from ‘58 to ‘62 with a stint on the Ticonderoga and Was the first crew aboard the Ranger when it arrived in San Diego after sea trials. He has old film of F8s taking off and landing. He couldn’t believe how fast they were. He passed away in 2014.