{"id":868,"date":"2011-06-25T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/2011\/06\/25\/bruises-and-pepper-spray-sletp\/"},"modified":"2011-06-25T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T22:57:00","slug":"bruises-and-pepper-spray-sletp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/2011\/06\/25\/bruises-and-pepper-spray-sletp\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruises and Pepper Spray – SLETP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the past few weeks, I\u2019ve been very busy attending the Seasonal Law Enforcement Training Program (SLETP) at Temple University along with the other cadets from Cohort 1. Although I\u2019m not allowed to go into details about what we\u2019ve been learning in specific \u2013 if I had to sum it up in a word, I\u2019d say it\u2019s been rigorous. Both the academic and the physical fitness components of our training have been very demanding \u2013 but I\u2019m glad we\u2019re being trained as hard as we are, because it helps us be that much more prepared when we begin working. I, for example, will be graduating the law enforcement academy and Temple University near the end of August, so it\u2019s been especially important that I absorb as much as I can while I have easy access to the instructors and am in an environment where guidance is right over my shoulder.<\/div>\n

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Just in the past three weeks I\u2019ve come home covered in bruises from defensive tactics (which have caused strangers to stare at me oddly when I\u2019m out in public), ruined one of my PT uniform shirts with mud and grass stains due to training, taken two very difficult exams, been shot with an Airsoft SIG SAUER pistol in the neck (I was wearing ballistic body armor, eye protection, pants and long sleeves at the time, but the tiniest<\/span> bit of bare skin is like a honing-magnet for Airsoft pellets) and have been OC (pepper) sprayed directly in the face. I\u2019m usually a night-owl, super-late-night sort of person, but I haven\u2019t been physically capable of staying awake past 9 PM because I\u2019m so bone-tired at the end of the day \u2013 and yet, this is the most fun and excitement I\u2019ve ever had in my life. Every day when I come home and take off my stinky boots and sweaty body armor, I feel like I\u2019ve learned something real<\/span>, and as the academy makes one more competent, it makes one more confident as well \u2013 and confidence goes a long way in law enforcement.<\/div>\n

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In the coming weeks, I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll be expressing this a lot \u2013 but I cannot wait until I am able to apply what I\u2019ve learned at the SLETP in my career after I graduate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past few weeks, I\u2019ve been very busy attending the Seasonal Law Enforcement Training Program (SLETP) at Temple University along with the other cadets…<\/p>\n

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