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skitch

Gym climber
Bend Or
Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 31, 2015 - 09:38pm PT
The 10 Deadliest Jobs: Deaths per 100,000

Logging workers: 128.8
Fishers and related fishing workers: 117
Aircraft pilot and flight engineers: 53.4
Roofers: 40.5
Structural iron and steel workers: 37
Refuse and recyclable material collectors: 27.1
Electrical power-line installers and repairers: 23
Drivers/sales workers and truck drivers: 22.1
Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers: 21.3
Construction laborers: 17.4

Out of approximately one million police and law enforcement personnel, with 126 deaths per year, the death rate for police is 12.6 per hundred thousand.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2015/01/how_dangerous_is_police_work_1053727.php
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Aug 31, 2015 - 09:39pm PT
Cops drive around a lot. That's pretty dangerous.

Eating garbage every day can't be good for you either.
overwatch

climber
Aug 31, 2015 - 09:42pm PT
Not to mention high speed donut intake.
dirtbag

climber
Aug 31, 2015 - 09:43pm PT
Sitting in your a*# everyday, I.e., what I do, should top the list. That will kill ya.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 31, 2015 - 09:48pm PT
They'd be even safer if'n they didn't buy those Glocks and other striker-fired
pieces of crap. You know how many cops have shot themselves or their partners
with those things in the locker room?
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Aug 31, 2015 - 09:50pm PT
Truly, you are right, cop deaths are down, but cops are still grossly over-represented for death by firearm, which speaks to some serious need for us all to just follow the word (not action) of Rodney King.

a 56 percent increase in the number killed by gunfire, a pro-police group said



http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-30/u-s-police-deaths-escalate-led-by-56-rise-in-gun-fatalities
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
Goldenville west of Lurkerville
Aug 31, 2015 - 09:50pm PT
This long-haired freak i worked with in the bad part of Long Beach drives by a winchells and points a toy cowboy pistol at some cops sitting out front on their break....I was inside the auto parts store when Rick , the long haired freak ,comes screeching into the driveway...The store was immeadiately surrounded by Long Beach cops weapons drawn and pointed...
overwatch

climber
Aug 31, 2015 - 09:51pm PT
That is a failure in weapon handling not the weapon.

Edit:
Referring to reilly's comment, damn you guys are fast
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Aug 31, 2015 - 09:58pm PT
or the ones from Training Day
The Chief

climber
Lurkerville east of Goldenville
Aug 31, 2015 - 10:32pm PT
Your source is confined to industry "jobs" in the US by Forbes with vague stat sources at best.

Lloyds in London as of 1998 ranked this "job" the sixth most dangerous job in the .... world.

Here are two of 8 major incidents I was directly up front in your face connected with on 13 deployments 4 at-sea CQ training FTC's. Total fatalities just in these two incidents, 16. Critically injured with amputations etc, 29.



[Click to View YouTube Video]

[Click to View YouTube Video]



Carry on....


EDIT: Just in my time at sea (18 of my 24 years) on five different decks, I lost 18 Shipmates that were my peers or I was directly in charge of. One of my closest Shipmates died on May 24, 1988 @ 0130 when he inadvertently walked into the #1 turning Turboprop of COD 012 off the coast of SD doing night CQ evolutions which I was holding on the Foul Line. Unfortunately there was nothing I could do. I saw him in the corner of my right eye less than a second before the fatal contact.

These are COD's on the Foul Line... @ :13 during the day. We Operate 24/7 around the clock. Now try to keep track of them props at night with minimal lighting at best.

[Click to View YouTube Video]

overwatch

climber
Aug 31, 2015 - 10:37pm PT
Holy sh#t Chief, hard to watch, especially the first one
skitch

Gym climber
Bend Or
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 31, 2015 - 11:13pm PT
My dad was in the Navy (Seabees) and he practically signed me up for the Air Force. Thankfully, like you, I was hundred of miles away from where we were killing the brown people with the oil.
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Aug 31, 2015 - 11:28pm PT
Flight decks are inherently dangerous. Was on the helo pad late one night in heavy seas and rain for the crash that killed the only Admiral lost in Vietnam. I dove behind the missile ejector, other guys dove in the nets and a couple over the side. Rotor blades flying everywhere. Retrieved the admiral's body, two of three staff were never found, the third survived as did the flight crew. Our guys in the water were picked up the next day by a destroyer.

All my buddies ended up on carrier flight decks which are way, way worse.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
The Chief

climber
Lurkerville east of Goldenville
Aug 31, 2015 - 11:37pm PT
My dad was in the Navy (Seabees) and he practically signed me up for the Air Force. Thankfully, like you, I was hundred of miles away from where we were killing the brown people with the oil.

Hmm... the second other Most Dangerous Job in the World, US Navy Helo Combat SAR Crewman.

That put me in many cases 1-200' AGL where the "Skinny" guys in Mogidishu from Aug 10th - Nov 25, 1993. You are aware why Bill Clinton sent us there are you not. Nothing to do with oil actually.

I will leave the rest to your Frankfurt AM/MAIN Air Force office boy stationed ass to decipher and of course post some nice thing about.

skitch

Gym climber
Bend Or
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 31, 2015 - 11:43pm PT
I was in Kuwait & turkey building bombs.
The Chief

climber
Lurkerville east of Goldenville
Aug 31, 2015 - 11:45pm PT
Good for you. What size LGB's and Rockeye's for what A/C Platform.

Storm or the latest endeavor.

If Storm, where....
skitch

Gym climber
Bend Or
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 31, 2015 - 11:49pm PT
Thank god I was in between those 2 wars!

Gotta die for your government!!!!
Gotta die for your government!!!!
Gotta die for your government!!!!
The Chief

climber
Lurkerville east of Goldenville
Aug 31, 2015 - 11:50pm PT
Ah... What Group were you with. And what size LGB's?

Storm wasn't a "war" btw.

And now I know your full of shet about Kuwait between "wars. Cus we were told to leave Kuwait after Storm and there were NO bomb makers ever in Kuwait. We never flew out of Kuwait. We weren't allowed to. All part of UN Res 660-687 or whatever numbers were there.

Nice try Skitch.
skitch

Gym climber
Bend Or
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 31, 2015 - 11:56pm PT
You obviously don't have a clue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Al_Jaber_Air_Base

And we mostly built MK82&84 paveways.

We mostly processed a lot of 20mm and 30mm.

I didn't really enjoy the "military". Too many brain washed morons that grasp for any ideology that confirms their shitty life choices.
The Chief

climber
Lurkerville east of Goldenville
Aug 31, 2015 - 11:59pm PT
Oh my bad... so what size LGB's and or Rockeyes did you build for either platform. And what exact SQ were you in.


Got any photo's... or are you just wiki'ing. Curious to know what years you were there cus we bingo'd several A/C to that exact field while doing the N-F-Z support between 95-99 on three different cruises. That would be UN RES/.....

Surely you have photos. Everyone has some. This is from my last dep. The one that is in the second vid I posted up thread. The Prise.

Edit: Ah.. good old GBU's. It's not for everyone that's for sure.





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