LIFE AND TIMES OF A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER
By R. Mark Shepard

(Chapter 17)

The daily job assignment you must to go as a Correctional Officer may turn out to be your worst fear or nightmare, and you will not even realize it until you have actually lived through it. 

It will be that simple task, or routine assignment that you do 20 times a day, 5 days a week, for years. You won't even know what you have done until it's over, and then you probably won't even think much about it because you are too used to the System and how it operates, and how you think you can make it work for you.

You think you know how to work with your closest fellow officers, and you think that they, the chosen few whom you wish to work with, will stand behind you no matter what.  You have faith that they are all of the Inner Protection you need to help you get through the everyday incident or problems that will arise and you believe that you will prevail from it all, without any repercussion from superiors or the investigation that it has formed.

This kind of thinking comes from being subjected to years of Conformity on the job, and sometimes just plain NOT using our God given talent of Common Sense that I have been talking about throughout this book. 

Myself and Sgt. Tom sometimes have not always made the best decisions, but we don't and never have formed opinions, just words, so that we would make sure that we would be walking out of the Front gate that we came in from, and not carried out on a stretcher.

We have made our share of mistakes, but Sgt. Tom and Myself have ALWAYS stuck together, and talked about what we would do in any situation. Some of our Conversations would be lengthy, and others would be just plain short words of so-called wisdom we would share together while running to help save someone, or while making a quick plan of attack, hoping to survive a bad situation.

CONTACT MARK SHEPARD
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(Chapter 18)

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