What They Didn't Teach at the Academy: Topics, Stories, and Reality Beyond the Classroom

ISBN-13: 9781439869192 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 398 str.

Dale L. June

Opis

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 courage and inspiration, What They Didn't Teach at the Academy: Topics, Stories, and Reality Beyond the Classroom looks at experiences encountered by public safety and military professionals that were not necessarily encompassed in their training or realistically portrayed in simulations. Topics raised in the stories include:

• A doctor confronting her own debilitating and potentially fatal disease
• Cultural awareness and safe travel
• Suicide among law enforcement officers
• Departmental harassment of a new police recruit
• Coping with an addicted spouse
• Posttraumatic stress disorder
• Life as a K-9 handler
• The effect of work obligations on marriage and family
• Conflicts between moral beliefs and professional principles
• Debunking myths about Islam

The book also examines coping mechanisms for stress and discusses the importance of observation, perception, and communication in facing challenging encounters. Through this collection of vignettes and philosophies, the contributors demonstrate that the lessons of life are not taught in colleges, universities, and academies but through hard experience.

Spis treści

Hard Knock Lessons. The Final Educational Degree: Life. Watch Out for Bees: They Can Ruin Your Career. Torch of Intuition, Flames of Preparation: Safely Lighting Your Way through Traveling’s Uncertainties. Don’t Outrun Your Headlights … or Your Guardian Angel. Suicide. Suicide by Cop: Victims from Both Sides of the Badge. Time and Attitude. (Not) One of the Guys. It’s Not about the Belt: Martial Arts Spirituality—Body, Mind, and Spirit. Life Lesson Experience. Tough Love: The Overpowering Addiction of Cocaine. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). General Lessons of Life. Combat Psychology and Sports Performance. Observation, Listening, and Perception. The Importance of Effective Communication. My Life or His: Shoot or Don’t Shoot. Cultural Pluralism. Life Is Situational. K-9 Partners: True Stories. Conflict of Time, Priorities, and Family. Marriage and Conflict. The Need for Ethics. Women Who Bully. Humorous Lessons. The Fifty-Miles-an-Hour Parking Ticket. Lessons in Life: The Mom Keaner Story. I Knew You Were Federal Agents. April Fools, Motherf___ers. Mentis Incompitus (Tripped up by Bad Planning). Patriotic and Immigration Lessons. Interpreting the Meaning of the Gettysburg Address. The Golden Door. The New Colossus: What It Means to Me. Ideology and Philosophy. Don’t Be Afraid. Listen to and Use Your Intuition. What I Should Know about Islam: A Basic Primer. Ideology and Philosophy. A Look to the Future through Today’s Prism.

O autorze

Dale L. June is a former U.S. Secret Service Agent assigned to the Presidential Protective Division at the White House with four presidents. He was also assigned to the Sacramento and San Diego field offices. He is a former military policeman and member of a military honor guard (110th Military Police Platoon, Stuttgart, Germany). He was also a police officer in Redding and Sacramento, California and a U.S. Customs Intelligence Research Specialist. He has worked directly with executives of multinational corporations, VIPs, political figures, royalty, and celebrities and liaised with law enforcement, fire department, and medical personnel, as well as international law enforcement agency personnel.