ABSTRACT
In the late spring and early summer of 1995 the author was a young police officer in one of the largest cities in Michigan. He was receiving a great deal of input from my Field Training Officers (FTOs), the various old-school sergeants that he worked for, and the various tenured officers who had done it and seen it all. It was their version of positive reinforcement, and it was far better to receive the often off-color, negative, profanity-infused information than to be shunned and ignored. However, the constant exposure to the old-school way of doing things set in rather quickly and threatened to rob me of my "gung-ho" attitude and work ethic that had stood me so well through my time in the military, college, and the police academy. A short time later, he was given a great opportunity and assigned to the Special Response Team (SRT), which is a version of a Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team.
