Tarl Advancement

You guys guess what!

Tarl brought home all this extra gear from work.

Cause he just made the SWAT team!

Way to go sweetie!! We're all so proud of you!

For the last year or so several different guys have been asking him to join, think about, try out for SWAT. He wanted to get a few more years experience under his belt but recently they had two openings and the timing sort of felt right. So he trained a bit harder for a few weeks, prayed about it, and we discussed the pros and cons and decided he should test. He also had to get 3 recommendations from supervisors (which I had a good time reading). 

Four guys tested, four guys passed (they had a decent group, the sergeant said he only knows of 1 other time in 19 years that everyone that tested passed). 

So they went into interviews for all four and only selected two for the team. 

And Tarl made it!

If you're interested the PT test includes:

 1.5 mile run in 13:29 minutes

300 meter sprint in 58 seconds

38 pushups

39 situps in 60 seconds

17.5 verticle jump

6 pulls ups

8 dips

bench press 3/4 of body weight + 10 pounds for 5 reps

**And fun fact. He has to do this every 6 months.

Tarl has attended his first two training's this week and I'm already pretty impressed with the team. And I love seeing Tarl interested in using his skills to help and make this team more efficient. And he's excited to get advanced training. It'll be a change for him, and our family but right now we're celebrating a lot because he's pretty darn amazing and we're all really proud!!