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re: How dangerous is it to be a Wildlife and Fishery agent ?
Posted on 6/30/20 at 10:26 am to OBReb6
Posted on 6/30/20 at 10:26 am to OBReb6
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You don’t seem to hear about them getting killed, but nearly everyone they deal with has guns
But I thought all guns were bad and kill people. Doesn’t have anything to do with they type person carrying the gun!!
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Posted on 6/30/20 at 10:27 am to Run up middle
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But I thought all guns were bad and kill people. Doesn’t have anything to do with they type person carrying the gun!!
Common sense is not socially acceptable any loner.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 10:29 am to shutterspeed
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Like most LEO, shite until you make it to the higher ranks.
Wildlife and Fisheries in Louisiana has a really shitty rank structure too. If OP is in Louisiana, might want to research that. You could work 25 years before a rank spot opens up.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 10:35 am to Boo Krewe
Insert Oregon DOTD blowing up a whale with dynamite. But seriously, I bet there are some eye opening stats on WF agents interactions with armed people compared to street cops. I would imagine you could prove a pro 2A point there.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 10:53 am to Riolobo
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Tyler Wheeler
Been on several Christian men's retreats with Tyler. His story is proof that Jesus is always at work and has a plan for each of us because Tyler should be dead right now.
He pulled over a couple between Bastrop and Sterlington on 165 on a traffic stop by himself. Granted he was shot on a traffic stop and not a game violation but that still falls in the state greenjean's wheelhouse. Plus, most if not all of the perps that greenjeans deal with will be armed.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 11:11 am to Jim Rockford
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Usually working by yourself, dealing with people that are usually armed. They're the subject matter experts on fieldcraft, so they get called in on fugitive hunts. They run up against clandestine meth labs pretty often. It ain't all writing tickets for not having a life jacket.
Are you referring to LA? Because none of that really applies here.
When I worked there it literally was all about boating safety and they cared little about anything else.
We never got called by outside agencies unless someone hit a deer or alligator and that was mostly for “permission” to euthanize them.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 11:13 am to Boo Krewe
Served as a Game Warden. I always said I went from a patrol officer where 40% of people I interact with have weapons to 95% of people have weapons. High powered ones too in the middle of flippin nowhere. Sweet gig overall though
Posted on 6/30/20 at 11:17 am to Boo Krewe
in MS, they rarely dismount their vehicle.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 11:19 am to Boo Krewe
I know a guy who was a Fed wildlife agent for his whole career.
There's not that many of them. He spent most of his time investigating suspected criminal activity, mostly year over year baiting waterfowl. He says he has had interactions/written tickets/indicted so many LA politicians over 40 years your head would spin.
He's also a pilot, so every year from August to October he'd go to Alaska and live in a cabin in wilderness by himself and run air patrol for people out moose/bear/sheep/etc hunting. Has very interesting stories.
Now he's retired, and spends most of his time flying his seaplane from NOLA to the coast to wade fish for trout and reds. I've been a few times and it's a blast.
NOLA -> Grande Isle -> NOLA back home before noon with a 3 man limit of hog trout
There's not that many of them. He spent most of his time investigating suspected criminal activity, mostly year over year baiting waterfowl. He says he has had interactions/written tickets/indicted so many LA politicians over 40 years your head would spin.
He's also a pilot, so every year from August to October he'd go to Alaska and live in a cabin in wilderness by himself and run air patrol for people out moose/bear/sheep/etc hunting. Has very interesting stories.
Now he's retired, and spends most of his time flying his seaplane from NOLA to the coast to wade fish for trout and reds. I've been a few times and it's a blast.
NOLA -> Grande Isle -> NOLA back home before noon with a 3 man limit of hog trout
Posted on 6/30/20 at 11:24 am to TheFonz
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They're the Navy Seals of state law enforcement.
Simmer down now, you count my fish, you’re not swarming a bank robbery hostage situation like SWAT.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 4:13 pm to brass2mouth
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Are you referring to LA? Because none of that really applies here.
Happens frequently here, tracking escapees in paeticular.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 4:20 pm to Boo Krewe
Have an extended family member who just retired from the US Fish & Wildlife Service (as a Special Agent there).
It was medium-ish dangerous, some of their cases involve undercover work, which is inherently dangerous.
Terrible amount of bureaucracy involved there, makes it unfun.
It was medium-ish dangerous, some of their cases involve undercover work, which is inherently dangerous.
Terrible amount of bureaucracy involved there, makes it unfun.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 4:25 pm to Run up middle
i would think a cop who loves to write people seat belt tickets would be a great game warden. all he has to do is switch to kill switch and life jacket tickets. lol
wildlife agent would be my choice over patrol cop, but neither one pays enough for the risks you have to take.
wildlife agent would be my choice over patrol cop, but neither one pays enough for the risks you have to take.
This post was edited on 6/30/20 at 4:28 pm
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