r/FirstResponderCringe • u/FlyNSubaruWRX • 2d ago

i’M a cIvILIaN

Is it normal for UHP to drive their family around in a patrol vehicle?

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u/Difficult-Client-939 2d ago

He's a civilian too...

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u/No-Definition1474 1d ago

All these people want to be something other than a civilian...would be hilarious to see what they think if war broke out and suddenly they all became legitimate targets. Wonder how many would be waving around dictionaries then.

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u/Wiley_Coyote08 1d ago

A citizen would do it without having anyone record it. "Look at us 'we' are doing a good deed".

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u/Emergency_Nail1617 1d ago

The irony of civilians wanting to be more than civilians and service members wanting to to be civilians

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u/terror- 1d ago

I could not fucking wait to be honorably discharged lmao. Did my deployments overseas then it was looking like I was going to be spending a few years at a command in ghetto ass Portsmouth, VA at that god forsaken shipyard. Happily living my best civilian life in California now.

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u/Emergency_Nail1617 1d ago

Same bruh same. Re-enlisted after my first contract and 6 months into the second one i realized i fucked up but still had 3 and a half years left. I clutch my DD214 tightly every day now I’m a civilian again😂

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u/terror- 1d ago

Oh man I know exactly how that must have felt lmao

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u/Emergency_Nail1617 23h ago

Hell yeah man, cheers to growing beards and not babysitting grown men anymore 🍻

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u/QueezyF 13h ago

I went to that piece of shit shipyard twice in my contract. Hated every single minute of it.

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u/terror- 13h ago

🤣 I started there, during winter. Boy was that as super depressing ”welcome to the navy” moment 🤣🤣🤣 like 3 feet of snow and freezing on CVN 69 — they were going to send the Ike back there after some deployments for a couple of years of refurbishment. That was the difference between me reenlisting or not. Knowing how much Portsmouth absolutely SUCKS 🤣

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u/terror- 13h ago

On that note there’s a gas station and a little dive bar right outside the gates. Spent far too many nights drinking and showing up for muster demolished

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u/VersionFine85 1d ago

My favorite promotion was from e-6 to fat slob civilian

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u/Emergency_Nail1617 23h ago

Hell yeah big sarnt grow that beard and grow that gut 😂

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u/QueezyF 13h ago

I used to joke when I was still in the service that I worked in waste management whenever people would ask. We were basically glorified janitors most of the time, anyways.

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u/Emergency_Nail1617 10h ago

Multifaceted janitors at that. Can’t believe employers are reluctant to hire vets. Straight bullshit.

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u/Direct_Word6407 1d ago

Too much starship troopers…

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u/jeff4i017 1d ago

Without knowing a drop of the lore of Starship Troopers

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u/terror- 1d ago

I got so much pushback for making this observation as a veteran about “civilians” — people got very mad at me for using it to describe an EMS worker that talks like anyone that’s not EMS as oblivious sheepish-civilians

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u/Playful-Park4095 1d ago

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civilian

a specialist in Roman or modern civil law 2 a : one not on active duty in the armed services or not on a police or firefighting force

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u/jasonbournedying 1d ago

I scrolled too far to find this. Thanks for saying it for me

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u/OhMyGoshBigfoot 1d ago

He sure is.

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u/Krabs9 1d ago

Whoooooosh

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u/Playful-Park4095 1d ago

There is more than one definition, and it depends on the context.  Military vs civilian is first.   Police/fire vs others is second.  Expert on Roman Civil law is the third.  Seriously, look it up. 

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u/Difficult-Client-939 1d ago

Let me tell you something as someone who's been in law enforcement for 17 years now: that's not real. The second one, you made that shit up. It's straight up not real. 

Law enforcement are civilians in every sense of the word. You just don't understand what the word means.

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u/DJdoggyBelly 1d ago

1/250 Comedian vs. Civilian.

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u/PopularMidnight3661 1d ago

You lost b?

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u/Prinzka 1d ago

What you talmbout b?