Why I Became A Cop For LAPD (FULL STORY)

so moving over to to jerry you've got an even different background walk us walk us through it man i mean we know how you guys met now we'll take us back we'll elaborate more on how we met but yeah um believe it or not contrary to what you just said um it's not that much of a difference in the background that we've had i also grew up in california a family of two immigrants both la frontera de mexico from tijuana and rosarito so mom from rosarito my dad from tijuana um and so that's what's funny and i was born in the states my family ended up immigrating eventually uh the right way they came over they got work visas they worked their asses off they worked in the fields they worked in factories they both had two three jobs at a time i never got to see my family i was always at home either with my older siblings um like we grew up poor we grew up dirt poor but i didn't know i was poor i just knew i had shoes you know roof over my head and you know and i had i had food and i was like okay that just a typical you know hispanic family growing up in sales in uh south la um from there uh i kind of knew that uh i wanted to do law enforcement from a very very young like time and most of it came from the area that i grew up in i grew up in a very high crime area like like right next to compton a city named paramount i know paramount yeah paramount's it's it's a it's a if you break it down paramount's more of an industrial city it's uh east of or the west of downey uh it's south of down south yeah south of downey um which is literally the city adjacent to compton right right next to uh rancho dominguez right next to long beach right next to norwalk so like it's a two by three mile city really small but extremely like populated and the majority of it is is hispanics it's mostly hispanic so all the the people that i knew in that area were all gang members all gang members they grew up in and out of jail juvie the cousins that i grew up with directly that lived in the same apartment that i lived in uh were in and out of juvenile hall all the time drugs you know [ __ ] doing like when i say drugs i mean just like weed like they were doing hardcore [ __ ] and um my dad and my mom used to whoop my ass when i used to hang out with them like good but as a kid i'm like i'm like i want to hang out with my cousins i want to hang out with the kids i don't want to be locked up in the house like this is boring dude um but then i started getting a very bad like distaste towards stuff like that like at a very very young age i got mugged a bunch of times walking to school you know this is me in second grade walking to school in second grade you're how old in second grade seven i can't math well i can't math well either but seven years old and i'm walking to school by myself different times obviously you know i would not even allow my 11 year old kid to go to school even if i could see him walking to school that's just the way it is back then parents are like hey i'm going to work um here's your lunch and see you later see you later i'll see you tonight at 7 for lunch or for dinner so different times i'm sure you were kind of the same you and i have talked about this a lot um and i and like during those times i got into fights i was hanging out with the wrong crowds and i started seeing like how bad it was in the area and uh i would get beat up i would get mugged by gangsters and the cousins that i did grow up with um and the older i got the the more i noticed like this is going to be a very bad decision if i continue working with him if i continue like hanging out with him and then one time when i was really young one of my cousins he goes hey we're going to go to a friend's house and i want to say i was like 9 or 10. he was like we're going to my friend's house he was like two years older than me and um he goes hey carry this though and he gives me something and i look at it and it's it was an ice pick and i go there's no ice where we're going it goes just put in your pockets cool don't worry about it i'm like alright cool all right and this is like 10 30 11 o'clock at night walking down we get hemmed up by local sheriffs code three turn on their lights bunch of 10 year olds out of what what time of night like 10 30 11 o'clock neighborhood yeah in the hood and we're like okay hands us up and uh i had the ice pick in my uh my hoodie sweater this is not gonna end well and i have it right here tucked in and when he said hey put your hands on the hood i i did this and for some reason at 9 10 i go okay and the ice pick flies like 10 yards that way shoot and the lights were on siren was on so he didn't hear it he didn't see it he hemmed up and i remember he's like what the [ __ ] you guys doing out here like you should be home you should be ashamed of yourselves and my cousin's just giving them lip cute cop right i'm like looking i'm like [ __ ] why am i hanging out with this guy like this is my blood this is my cousin legit cousin but i'm like [ __ ] he's gonna get me in trouble dude and cop comes up to me he goes how old are you like where do you live like i'm like oh i live over there all right throws him throws us in the back of the squad car and he drops off to each individual house i didn't get cops he takes you home he takes me home talks to my mom and dad he goes you know he's he's out and about he's you know doing bad [ __ ] and uh you need to keep a watchful eye on him obviously my mom and dad kicked this yeah at night and um that's when i kind of got like a lot of respect for cops i'm like oh okay like i need to step away from this lifestyle and that's what i want to do when i grow up so that was like my first real taste of like law enforcement so that's interesting like i mean that's a that's a pretty intense situation i mean what you did with your arms really probably could have dictated what had happened with you for a long long time yeah right so you dodge a bullet and you your dot the bullet is under like really kind of not so great circumstance and i think that could i mean that could influence you one of two ways it's interestingly interesting that it influenced you in the way where you wanted to know more about being a police officer versus like [ __ ] these guys like they're just out ruining my life at 10 years old and i think also it was how he treated me that often that deputy like he treated me with he scolded me i was a young kid he scolded me rightfully so but then he said let me just take you home and let me have a word with your parents and i think that like i grew even more respectful towards law enforcement after that i wish i wish parents would allow this to happen to their kids more often instead of well we probably get into that later oh yeah i'm actually glad to hear that though because i i personally know a few people uh that give cops a bad rap and they have their own experiences to say that you know um but i don't feel like enough people have stories like when he just sold well that was really cool i mean that's just they don't tell them yeah yeah they probably don't tell them yeah yeah right uh so fast forward a little bit more um my mom passed away at a very young age i was only 12 at the time so my dad became very very um how do you say like overprotective of me like super overprotective so i didn't even get to go out anymore you know the hell with going out to a friend's house he would drop me off at school he was super super overprotective my sister came back into the the family and i thought she was gone but she had been married already she was a lot older than i was like 13 14 years older than me um so she came in and she kind of became a mother figure for us helped us around the house etc and i started noticing that my cousins the same cousins that i used to hang out with were again in and out of jail were just doing drugs were just really really really bad to the point where um one of them's now in prison for three counts of murder uh one of them is dead the other one's a drug addict uh another one uh committed atrocious you know felonies you know for the good of their gang or whatever and i i'm like i'm not going to follow this anymore i'm not going to follow this path i can't do this so i got i got a question man so you're you've made this decision consciously or at least in your 10 year old brain or 12 year old brain yeah like i'm not going to be like that is it a combination of things because clearly your cousins didn't get the same message yeah right because what you just said there are some pretty serious [ __ ] i mean dead in jail in prison but that's no way to live your life right so what was the difference um [Music] i i think a combination of a few different things so one my mother passing away i had a really young brother as well that i kind of had to look after um my pop's kicking my ass quite a bit you know but i know i know it was out of love like he would whoop me but it was out of love and i would learn i would learn from my mistakes and the fact that i don't know why i think it has to do with my mother passing away at a very young age that i was able to mature faster and i was able to to look at somebody's mistakes and go nah man i don't want to do that i don't want to follow that lifestyle like peer pressure not i don't want to lie follow that lifestyle i think my mom's going to be very embarrassed with me if if she was around she'd probably kick my ass like let's step away let's let's look at the bigger picture like i have to make my dad proud my brother proud my older siblings that have been raising me proud like yeah that's not my lifestyle i need to walk away from that yeah got you i mean there's a respect level there right and you're also forced to take on responsibility forced to be accountable to your actions and whether that's being picked up by the sheriff's deputy being taken home or getting an ass weapon from your dad one way or another there's actions and there's consequences correct and the consequence for you was if i don't look out for my little brother right then nobody's going to look out for him yeah right and or if i [ __ ] up my dad's going to whip my ass neither of those two things are good no no so it drives decision making in a little bit of a different way versus mom and dad protecting you all the time or trying to solve your problems for you and or not allowing you to be exposed to the things that happen in the repair the very real things that happen in the world and then you're right outside the front door yeah right that's um i mean that's powerful because i think it it speaks largely to who i know you are at this point i haven't known you that long but man i mean it's just another one of these examples of people struggling early and you look at that in the end as a blessing right that you had to struggle that way like you had to get [ __ ] up like you had to make those mistakes and whether you were allowed to make those mistakes or not you you or whatever however you want to look at that you were forced to be accountable to those in some way and you come out the other side you have choices to make and that's on you and you choose to continue to [ __ ] up yeah or we'll choose a different path well what ended up happening this i'm gonna fast forward um i was 17 18 17 16 17 in high school and i was still exposed to a lot of the stuff that we talked about already and i told myself okay when can i join law enforcement i was like oblivious to what age you could join law enforcement like what it takes i i you know i thought it was like you signed an application here's your gun here's a badge here's some training and there it is um and then i later found out i'm like no you have to be 21 to join to law enforcement you know particularly in california i think it's nationwide actually and you have to do x y and z you have to have some life experience it's not like they're gonna pick up a librarian a librarian's gonna apply and okay yeah you go to the academy like they want some kind of background um kind of yeah we'll get into that later um so i decided i said okay well from when i graduate high school until 21 what what do i do with my life like i've already been exposed to so much crap and if i don't have something that drives me towards that end goal like i'm gonna get in trouble i'm gonna get caught up in it and i don't wanna stay here and i'm like okay what do i do and i started talking to my friends and my friends like joined the marine corps i was like what the hell's the marine corps like oh it's the military i was like i like the army they're like no no it's the marine corps i'm like okay like where do we go for this oh we got to go to recruiting station like all right cool yeah sure i had no idea like what the marine corps was i didn't know anything i i just knew the army and and the navy because my cousin had joined the navy when i was younger too um and but that's all i knew like i knew there was army in the navy i was oblivious to everything else um so i went to a recruiting station they were busy went back home and then recruiters started showing up at my house and the dude was wearing dress blues pretty sharp you're like oh cool dress blues those are cool looking young impressions young impressionable that's what it was it's a ploy you know they want to impress you know the kids and whatnot and i'm like oh that's the marines like okay like what is that and i said talk to the recruiters name was sergeant pedroza at the time um he took me to the station he took actually like six of us from high school like we're all six friends um that we knew each other we went to the same classes we all grew up in paramount uh we went and we signed up and uh at 17 at the time you still needed your your consent from your your guardian or your father um so i i told him i wanted to sign up and and he says well i need your dad to sign on this like okay well let's go talk to my dad my dad's gonna be totally fine with it and go my dad goes which means hell no i'm like well why not he goes well no no no i already lost your mom and i'm not going to lose you too oh wow and i'm like how the hell are you going to lose me i'm just going to join the military and he goes no the marines you go and die i'm like i was still oblivious to what the marine corps was you know i just thought i was joining the military and i didn't know like there was jobs and different occupations and mosses i had no idea um and i told them okay well here's your ultimatum you either sign when i'm 17 and you give me consent and i'll be happy or i sign when i'm 18 and i will never forgive you for this it's like that i told it was just like that and he looked at me goes all right let me chew on this one and then the next day he signed away he had he signed away he goes here's the thing i'm going to go to church and i'm going to pray for you and and you better not do anything stupid like okay cool yeah whatever i'm going to join the military i want to get away from this this is stupid like this lifestyle's stupid i want to get away from it because ultimately i want to be a cop and i don't know why he was okay with me being a cop but me not okay with joining the military it's like really weird oh my dad do you not know like it's pretty dangerous out here um so i i went and i i signed up i joined and then 9 11 happened like three months after because you know being oblivious to marine corps and military and all that stuff yeah pre-911 there wasn't much unless you were paying attention what was going on and you know in iraq to desert stormshield but it hadn't it wasn't getting sensationalized right and certainly we hadn't had an event like 911 yet to wake the kids up to what was really going on over there i mean i was hyper aware but now correct me from wrong afghanistan was already going on in 2001 though right yeah it won yeah 2000 2001 afghanistan was already happening but hey i didn't even know afghanistan was a place you know at the time let alone the marine corps i think a lot of people in the same situation man i think they only know it for a certain way it is now like i'm 47 years old i'm literally old enough to remember how [ __ ] up it's been forever right uh forever and um you have to know u.s history i guess but if they're not teaching you that [ __ ] in school and you're not getting that from your parents would you know yeah okay all right so so so i joined and um got to the point where the recruiter goes well what mos do you want i go well i had i just looked up what the marine corps was and i go oh infantry cool that's what i want to do and i'd already done my at my uh my uh yeah i did my asvab i scored pretty decently um and the recruiter goes well you qualify for every job you got a pretty good asvab score um he goes you could do whatever you want you do intel you can do comms you could do motor t you could do this you could do that you shouldn't do infantry i couldn't but but i want to do infantry he goes no no no no look i was a calm guy and that's something that you know is very applicable in the civilian world like do you plan on doing this for the rest of your life i go no no i want to be a cop afterwards he goes oh this is just a stepping stone for me to not get in trouble anymore and also maybe learn some life skills because i have zero life skills outside of what i've done when i was young he goes no no um you want to do what i did you want to do calm or you want to do something else you could do intel you could do this you could learn something in the military besides just be infantry you go no no i want to be infantry he goes no i'm not going to let you do it i'm not going to let you do it and i go okay is it a quarter to fill probably yeah probably in hindsight i don't know if that even exists in the military is there quotas for moses okay so i guess there is so that's how oblivious that was to it and i go okay well i'm going to join the army it's literally down the hallway so now you're pulling the same shield pulling up on my dad i'm going i'm joining the army then it worked once yeah you tried to pull on me earlier no i was pulling guards that's different um so i'm like okay i'm just gonna join the army and i walk out and he runs out no no jerry jerry jerry um okay i'll tell you what you want to join the infantry okay chew on this um go open contract and more than likely um they'll choose you to be infantry well what i didn't know is that open contract is whatever the marine corps wants you to do whatever their needs are i'm stupid i'm young i'm 17. i go will it solidify a position in the in in infantry goes you'll have a high probability of joining the infantry oh [ __ ] i go okay cool yeah yeah i didn't know 17. i didn't know i didn't do [ __ ] i go okay so i you're not letting me join the infantry but you're letting me go up in contract and i have a chance remember that remember dumb and dumber's so you're saying i have a chance it's only the top five right so that that was me that was me i go so i have a chance right he goes oh yeah you have a really high probability uh that you're gonna you're gonna get chosen to be infantry i'll go cool i'll sign up then signed up uh went to basic and this was i signed up in 2001 july i'd left june july of 2002 so 9 11 happened during that time it happened after i had signed up so i didn't join the military because of 911 but it did like once it happened i said okay yeah i'm going to the marines i'm like i'm going to do what i need to do and then i go to boot camp and then i end up going to mct and mct mct is just um it's it's not infantry it's not infantry you learn like basic rifle skills and basic like land nav um but it's like right after boot camp and then at the very end when you graduate mct which is i want to say it's like a month long they give you your mos they they call you okay uh munoz you are a cook uh scott you're gonna be uh bulk fuel uh b-dub oh you're going infantry j uh perez ammunition what the [ __ ] is ammunition what do you mean well ammunition tech so you did do the general open contract oh yeah yeah so did he say that yeah so he did it thinking that he was going to be infantry thinking that i was like oh i'm going to have a high probability to do infantry so i was pogue as hell in the marine corps just fyi but you have to explain pogba you know you know that term i've heard the term somebody else used it on the podcast a couple weeks ago but it wasn't defined so pogue is people other than grunts okay got you so yeah it's it's it's a derogatory term but it's not derogatory so yeah i don't think this is the story this guest that i was talking to she was in the army and her dad with special forces he was a sniper special forces and he went down and by the way mom was actually a ranger um yeah airborne sorry she was airborne one of the first and maybe the first female to actually be accepted anyhow the long story short is like dad went down the recruiting office and basically bullied the recruiter into making sure she got what he thought she should have which ends up making her a poke but turns out that's what she probably should have been doing anyways so anyways uh the naive kid walking into the recruiter's office not knowing and sort of being influenced or not bullied i'm not going to say that i'm almost tricked i was definitely i mean this is 100 percent [ __ ] shady right yeah kid's life right yeah yeah oh the heating kit so what is munitions uh so ammunition tech is um we pretty much handle nomenclature lots of all munitions pertaining to infantry artillery tank units in the marine corps with the exception of air air assets okay so we didn't deal with the air side of the munitions uh we had other techs that were specifically for aircraft munitions so all the ammunition that i dealt with uh was for either workups or for deployments so i was in charge of we went to redstone arsenal which is a a base an army base in alabama and that's where we we learned our mos designation and then from there i was attached to a unit where we just helped with the workups so the first year in my fleet time in the marine corps i spent in 29 palms which sucks by the way it's the west coast armpit of the marine corps and uh middle of nowhere nothing but you know hills have eyes people living out about it's really weird place um i think they had like one one restaurant one bar at the time builder um and uh i was just sick and tired of being there and oif had just kicked off so basically what you're doing is you're giving the ammunition to the guys that you wanted to be yeah you're basically like here have a great [ __ ] time doing what i signed up hoping i was going it was a slap in the face dude it was a complete slap in the face so so we had guys half of the guys and gals that um were in my unit of my first year in the fleet got selected to go to iraq for oif-1 and i'm like i was trying to volunteer i'm like that's what i want to do i want to go i want to go since i'm not infantry let me at least go on a deployment and it was like no again a big [ __ ] no i'm like [ __ ] okay so i stayed behind and uh most of the infantry uh battalions in 29 palms had already deployed come back for rotation etc etc my mass certain at the time um i i somehow after a year being there convinced him that i needed to deploy somewhere i needed to deploy with an infantry unit so that i could go overseas because at that time i'm like now i need to go do something i need to get out of here like i'm all my homies are going to iraq or afghanistan and i'm here in the rear and i need to do something before i get out of the marine corps because i knew that i wasn't going to do more than four years i said i'm i'm after four years of 21 and get out and i'll get out so i could do law enforcement but i wanted to have a little bit more lives life experience i guess whatever um so i finally convinced my master to to get me orders to become an ammo tech at an infantry battalion on the east coast so i'm getting closer to what i'm still not going to be able to do yeah still not going to be able to do but regardless he got me orders and i ended up going to first battalion second marines out of camp lejeune so i get there i'm 19 and a half and 19 and a half almost yeah 20 19 i have 20. and they go hey you're in charge of all the ammunition for the whole battalion uh i'm like how many is in a battalion it's like a thousand twelve hundred yeah a lot a lot like attack twelve hundred marines and this is alpha company bravo charlie weapons company um h s everybody that's in the battalion to include any other support element of people i was put in charge of all their ammunition i'm like i'm a 19 and a half 20 year old kid that barely knows how to do any of this and i have to deal with everybody's ammunition right and we're talking like millions of dollars millions and millions of dollars of assets assets and people that you're dealing with at very high levels i'm sure right the only people i had to answer to were the the company um gunnies the company um lieutenants and my gunner i mean these are the guys that are making the decisions about what's happening on the battlefield these are the guys that are that are so let me rewind a little bit so the ammunition that i dealt with for the battalion when i was still conus here at stateside it was all it was all training ammo and not until i actually ended up going to iraq with the with with one two that i have to deal with all the ammunition for each individual uh company right uh for for actual the you know field use or for wartime use uh but i you know i was out there with every single company during their workups um supplying them with what they needed but i only dealt with the the top dogs of each company i guess okay um and again i only answered to a handful of people my gunner and my battalion commander which was a a lieutenant colonel um and yeah so you're dealing with people at an executive level correct right so you're on your grunt so to speak but you're not right you're dealing with the you're dealing with the yeah the upper echelon so there's a different level of communication correct right um brian's already identified that you can't spell or write an email so clearly the military didn't teach you that though i don't know where you got that right i'll teach you that i was really good with excel that's about it okay so spreadsheets sheets that's awesome that's actual facts yeah they're not good with numbers or excel spreadsheets interesting the learning that's going on uh so again fast forward a little bit we ended up going to iraq um 2005 2006 uh with the 22nd mew so we actually got on naval ships passed through the suez canal uh well before that we went to djibouti for a little bit they did some workups 22nd mew had first battalion second marines some arty units um our battalion i'm sorry some tanks with us some other elements like special operation elements mostly recon marines either force recon or i don't remember sports recon recon which is a little bit different um and uh we ended up going to iraq originally we weren't supposed to go to iraq it was supposed to be a westpac tour and we were supposed to like stop at all the different countries yeah big ports and whatnot and they said nope we're going to iraq and we stopped in kuwait from kuwait we got on airplanes yeah and the air force thank you taxi um you're welcome [Laughter] flew us into the ambar region okay uh and then we went to our separate fobs for almost six months all right so you finally got your deployment i got my deployment i wasn't infantry but i was attached to an infantry battalion so i guess it was better than nothing yeah so i came back after that um knew that i wanted to i was at 21 already at the time almost 22. so i said okay life experience i'm at least 21. let me apply for a police agency and the only police agency even as a child that i ever ever ever wanted to join was lapd i was broke as hell though came back broke as hell didn't have any money i said i got presented with an opportunity and they said hey why don't you go overseas again to iraq as a civilian contractor this time i go okay doing what they go blown [ __ ] up dude okay i'm like what do you mean they go you're gonna be working with eod guys all the time you know ammo you know how to separate ammo what blows up what's volatile with what you know you know that red fast doesn't mix with blah blah blah i'm like all right cool how much do i get paid about fifteen thousand dollars a month and i'm 21 i go show me where to [ __ ] so let's do this i go i'll do this for six months i'm cool with that lapd can wait i'm cool with that i need some money i need to be a little bit more liquid uh so i went over for six months and i all i did was work with eod guys like air force cod navy eod um so eod explosive ordnance disposal people that don't know what that is correct so so so went out uh with the corps of engineers the army corps of engineers uh had a contract with the civilian company called eotech um and all we did was demo shoots on ammunition and confiscated uh firearms guns you just name it that was confiscated from the either the taliban or from something that was uncovered some village somewhere somewhere that yeah they weren't supposed to have so we would do demo shoots every day for six months legitly we're just blowing millions of dollars worth of ammunition i'm like how the hell are these guys getting all this ammo and later to find out it was like a lot of like shady [ __ ] that's how they're getting all their ammo and stuff like we were going to these um they call them magazines they're pretty much bunkers under underground bunkers where they store ammunition and when you look at it from the top view it just looks like little hills yeah um you know what i'm talking about so i went in there i'm looking up and uh on top you could see the writing like on the pillars and it says parts for bridges and i go departure bridges oh [ __ ] they they use this their illegal funds or illegal equipment that they use or material that they would use to to build these things looking at other boxes and they had boxes of mp5s lined up brand new mp5s lined up everywhere that they somehow gotten into country somehow somehow got into country we're opening up other boxes of ammunition they had nazi ammunition they had world war ii world war ii like nazi stamped ammunition i'm like dude iraq was like packed full of awesome crazy dude my eyes were opening up i'm like holy crap dude like saddam had some crazy [ __ ] over here dude i'm sure you heard all the stories about walking into a like entire like sized u.s bedroom stacked floor to ceiling with 100 bills oh yeah yes like gold bars hold on insane story like read any of the books from the invasion of iraq or afghanistan out of control i didn't deal with that i dealt with just the weapons the weapons and the ammunition but almost all the fires of spirits like that is more true to me now you know i was like holy i'm looking at this i'm like i wish i had there's a full auto mp5 and they had in the box crates yeah great beyond the eye could see of just brand new mp5s and i had to blow it up yeah because it was complicated i was like oh can i just take one yeah it only needs one yeah how much would one of those be worth an og one from 2006 dude come on do like over twelve thousand dollars probably brand new in a box like that or closer to like 40. okay it was crazy [ __ ] dude i'm telling you just the stuff that i would see the stuff that was supposed to be used for humanitarian purposes there was one crate it was funny i'm looking at a box full of crates and it says typewriter parts we're blowing up typewriters and i open it up hand grenades i'm like what the hell typewriter parts these are not typewriter parts dude i'm like oh you shady little guys um anyway so you're working as a how long does the contract work work so there were six six months stints um you would do six months um and then you had the choice to come back or go to they would if you wanted to go to i don't know dubai or if you wanted to go to london or do you want to go anywhere they would send you out there you could have fun and then come back you're 300k 15 15k a month for six months we're not really counting here but yeah sure i'm making good money i was making good money per trip that's why people do it that's why people are doing it but this is back in the day when like contracting work overseas was actually paying good money i don't think they make that kind of money anymore right uh i mean depends on what you're doing let's assume afghanistan's still rocking and rolling right now obviously it isn't uh yeah no it's it's it took a huge dive yeah uh probably a 60 hit from like 2001 to five from and then from five to present it probably took a 60 percent dive well so most of the companies are out there with us um because remember i wasn't doing like gun stuff out there i was blowing [ __ ] up so we we had contractors protecting us we had like a triple canopy we had black water we had coaches cochise was another one right cochise i think was another one we had guys protecting us and all they did was pump iron eat and watch the wire for us and i was doing the more tech i guess the more technical stuff was blowing stuff up um it was paying really good money and i was like all right this is cool you know i get to blow stuff up i get to hang out with dope people um i get to work out and eat for free and then i go home after six months lots of money and go home and i made my money and i said i don't need to really be here anymore and when i made that choice as i was signing my my end of contract out there uh saddam got captured and i'm like oh i definitely don't want to stay here then i definitely want to leave the country yeah so left country came back um applied for lapd yeah there's a transition here at some point yeah applied for lapd um and they said all right it's gonna be a little bit of wait i said okay um i'm just gonna live my life i have money in the bank i'm just gonna relax for a while finally relax for a while they call me a few months later they tell me hey um you passed backgrounds coming through the next part of the process yeah i go through the next process i did my i did my interview my panel interview i did my polygram a polygraph i'm sorry polygraph did everything that i needed to do i did my physical mammogram two i did that i did three of those pass well fill the first one past the next two um and then um go to do the medical portion and there was a hiccup and ended up finding out that i have white park white wolf parkinson's white syndrome uh and i'm like what the hell is that i don't know what that is so it's it's basically when you're uh so the way your heart be i'm not i don't know anything about the anatomy too well but the way your heart beats it's not like you think about it and it beats right it just your brain sends electrical pulses to your heart and it beats for you right i mean that's at least that's what i it that's a lame it's way your nervous system takes care of it it just takes care of itself so apparently i have too many connections to my heart and my brain sends too many messages or too many pulses to my heart and it beats irregularly from time to time this is something that you could see in the ekg and you've never had one before so you wouldn't have known i did i had one in the marine corps remember before you go to the marine corps at uh maps they make you do an ekg well i was told that this is something you're born with so i guess the marine corps didn't give a [ __ ] and they just said yeah you're going in you're going you're just not the number you're going in lapd disqualified me though they said no you can't you can't go because you're too much of a risk liability your liability you could croak at any time you know you could do some physical stuff i was like dude i just got another hard no i was like dude i just another hard no i was like dude i just got back from iraq i've you know i did another tour over there i was in the marine corps boot camp i was like i'm healthy dude i'm young i'm 21. they said no you have to get a waiver somehow and we're not going to help you with that so for six months i was like spending my own hard earned cash to try to find a doctor that would sign off on a waiver do stress tests on me et cetera and then eventually the va said i saw i went to the va in in um in la and they told me we'll do a stress test on you and we'll sign off if you if you don't die i guess so they did a stress test on me they said i was perfectly fine i was healthy i submitted my letter of recommendation to the heat of the head physician for lapd medical and three days later they called me and said okay you're good you could continue the process but it was just all these hoops that i was just such a long road to just get what you want to mean yeah such a long road um joined i got an acceptance letter literally a few weeks after i passed medical um at the time because i thought i might not be joining lapd i was working for home depot oh [ __ ] for three days and then i quit on the third day because i got that phone call from lapd wait were you working in the store or the parking lot yeah i was working at yeah i was i was actually you know what you wanna hear something funny home depot sends you to a two-day training seminar where you learn all the hr stuff you learn how to stock stuff and and so i went to two days of training third day that i show up to start actually like oh you're going to be assigned to your paints and hardware or whatever i'm doing my paperwork my w-9 and then all of a sudden they go my phone rings and i go it's lapd and i go hey sir um i know it's only my first day officially here but i quit and then like what i go i got accepted to lapd and i don't want to work for home people and they're like okay sure they had to pay me out cash because of the two days that i actually worked and two weeks later here i am in the academy right [Music] so

Channel: Iron Sights

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Keywords: triple feed, military, air force, guns, firearms, special forces, LAPD, war stories, afghanistan, deployment, immigration, business, money, media, navy seals, active duty, athlete, guard, fitness, lifestyle, entrepreneurship, police, officer, gangs, criminal, hood stories, fighting, iron sights, after dark

Id: 7cTmr3TO-EE

Length: 40min 27sec (2427 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 24 2022