Anybody in OT live in Texas?

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#51 deactivated-6127ced9bcba0
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@LJS9502_basic said:

Never really liked Texas when I was there...but good luck if you do move there. More politically inline with you though....:P

I didn't really like San Antonio that much either. But it would have been more tolerable if I wasn't in the military at the time.

And yes, that's one of the things I'm looking forward to.

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@airshocker said:

@evildead6789 said:

everybody speaks english over here

Yet I would have to learn another language to have any chance of getting a law enforcement job over there.

Too much work, man. If I was younger, fresh out of the military, it may have been an option.

plus, you know, American cop's natural predisposition to shoot first and ask questions never...

it might not fly over there :P

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@ad1x2 said:

I spent six months in San Antonio on TDY while working at SAMMC between September of last year and March of this year. I'm not sure how familiar you are with the place but I'm guessing that your last stay there was when you went to Lackland. To me, the place is great and I probably wouldn't mind retiring over there if I didn't already have plans to retire in Atlanta.

The military footprint is small enough compared to the civilian population to where I don't have to be reminded that there are a few bases there but at the same time having the Commissary at multiple corners of the city if you still had base privileges is pretty convenient. There's a high illegal immigrant population there but that's true in many areas in Texas.

What's pretty fucked up is I did more in my military career in five years than some POGs do in 20 and I don't even get base privileges anymore. The military is backwards sometimes.

I know where you're coming from, when I started recruiting I was less than a year apart from my third tour in Iraq and my sergeant major, first sergeant, and station commander never left the U.S. (outside of vacations) because they were recruiters almost their entire careers. But that's how the powers that be set it up to encourage leadership to stay.

I know AAFES is trying to get permission to let honorably discharged veterans shop online and while most of the time Amazon is cheaper they are tax free and sometimes they have some good deals. I bought a 50 inch Samsung 4K TV off of them two weeks ago for $699 that retails for around $1500 and is being sold on Amazon for $1200 new.

Maybe you should consider the Reserves or National Guard? You can still be a cop and you'll get your base privileges back. It's not like you'll go anywhere since most of us are out of Iraq and Afghanistan and at worse you may have to handle a few natural disasters and some civil unrest every once in awhile, which I'm sure you do anyway in your current job.

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