EOD

Entrance on Duty date.

For the rest of my career I will remember this date. Not so much because I will be required to provide it throughout my career as an indication of my seniority, but because I wrote it roughly eleventy-billion times today... that is just roughly of course.

I sat in a hotel conference room for many hours, watching powerpoint presentations, videos, and speeches designed to impress upon me the gravity of my chosen occupation. Most of it was very well and professionally presented. I endured endless cracks about the horrible station I was going to. Let them laugh. I'll have hundreds more arrests and seizures and out-rank the vast majority of my class in very few years.

Here is how I hope I looked to my co-workers and supervisors that I met today.This is how I felt inside.

And thanks for the tie Daring. It felt powerful. And I have graduated so I can wear it now.