ABSTRACT

While professional courses and how-to manuals can prepare us for expected events that will occur in the course of our careers, there remains an untapped reservoir of life experience that cannot be prepared for in training or study. These events and experiences give texture and meaning to our work and shape our character. Filled with stories of cour

chapter 5|12 pages

Suicide

chapter 7|4 pages

Time and Attitude

chapter 8|18 pages

(Not) One of the Guys

chapter 10|2 pages

Life Lesson Experience

chapter 12|6 pages

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

chapter 13|12 pages

Combat Psychology and Sports Performance

chapter 15|2 pages

The Importance of Effective Communication

chapter 16|4 pages

My Life or His: Shoot or Don’t Shoot

chapter 17|6 pages

Cultural Pluralism

chapter 18|2 pages

Life Is Situational

chapter 19|36 pages

K-9 Partners: True Stories

chapter 20|6 pages

Conflict of Time, Priorities, and Family

chapter 21|6 pages

Marriage and Conflict

chapter 22|16 pages

The Need for Ethics

chapter 23|8 pages

Women Who Bully

chapter 24|2 pages

The Fifty-Miles-an-Hour Parking Ticket

chapter 25|6 pages

Lessons in Life: The Mom Keaner Story

chapter 26|2 pages

I Knew You Were Federal Agents

chapter 27|2 pages

April Fools, Motherf___ers

chapter 30|2 pages

The Golden Door

chapter 31|4 pages

The New Colossus: What It Means to Me

chapter 34|2 pages

Ideology and Philosophy