merlin436
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Last Activity: Yesterday, 07:50 AM
Joined: 03-29-2005
Location: North America
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I can only hope that fully autonomous vehicles come about in my lifetime. That would be so useful and life-changing. -
Pre-academy dresses business casual. Dress up on day one for swearing oath, meeting upper management and first impressions. -
OFO is alright. The money is usually OK to good. The work is usually more complex than actually difficult. Morale and the rest most often depend on the port, as you suspected. Scheduling is all over the place in many locations and much of what is available depends on seniority and the port.
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89 training days...
"The CBPOBT training program is taught at the Field Operations Academy (FOA) and was granted initial program accreditation in November of 2008. The program is approximately eighteen five-day weeks (89-days) in length, and totals 710 hours in total training time."... -
@N.N.
The current academy is 89 training days. It's been 89 training days for a while now...since 2011 or so.
Prior to that, several different versions and program lengths existed...73 days and 55 days were the two most common historically. -
@elgin_87
I've been a CBPO since day one when the position was formally created in 07/2004. Prior to that, I was a 1890 Customs Inspector. -
If FLETC food is now compatible to Golden Corral then it's greatly improved from when I last was there. -
Outside of nonworking federal holidays, they likely won't approve leave outside of extreme circumstances...visiting family unlikely to qualify.
Nights and weekends are largely your own.
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Visitors are allowed with restrictions and a nighttime curfew. -
Food is provided in a cafeteria setting during select hours of the day. During the hours the cafeteria is open, you can eat all you want. Generally, the hours of the cafeteria mirror the busiest times of the day, so often food is grab and go vs sit down and gorge.
There's an offsite pizza... -
It's a good thing that the mass murdering van driver wasn't monkeying with his cell phone as a triggering device for the car bomb he had stashed in the back of the van.
I'm glad that the Toronto cop made a decision that worked out for him in the end...but that situation could have ended...Leave a comment:
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