“TEACHING THE FIRE FORCE TWENTYSOMETHINGS, PART 1”

TEACHING THE FIRE FORCE TWENTYSOMETHINGS, PART 1

TRAINING NOTEBOOK

I thought the lieutenant’s head would explode. The first day of recruit school was done. The recruits had just received the lieutenant's "follow the rules and regulations" presentation, a line-by-line reading of the recruit school conduct manual. Three times the recruits were told that the only excuse for time lost while in school was a severe emergency. When the recruits were dismissed, one member of the class came up to the lieutenant to tell him that she would be late the next day. When he asked why. she said that she had to be at the dealership at 10 a.m. the next day to sign papers for her new car. She could not understand why the lieutenant’s face suddenly got so red.