Sunday, February 3, 2013

Independent Component 1


Literal
A.)   I Joey Luna , affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
B.)    I did work for the navy firefighters. My uncle  was a second mentor to me and taught me a lot about military firefighting. Another source that helped me through this was the complete guide to becoming a firefighter by Kory Pearn.
C.)    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqlHw3zxdiyCdDhMZjJ2dEljeWR6YTVlTGRTOVJhenc#gid=0
D.)   I completed 30 hours of work that ranged from talking to firefighters, cleaning, hands on experiences. I helped my uncle who is a firefighter in the navy and he is the head of his division. He tells the men what to do and how to do it. I mentored him and he helped me understand a little about the fire station. I learned about the boat, cleaned, interviewed him, I fought no fires while I was there as much as I wanted to.


Interpretive
Some of the work that I did actually turned me off of military firefighting. I thought they did many things but in reality they don’t do as much. I wish it would have been a better experience but cleaning and simple interviews did not give me as much of a inside look on the department as I would have liked. I just did 30 extra hours but for this was military, I much rather stick to a city fire department.

Applied
This helped me understand that I really don’t want to become a military firefighter . A military firefighter doesn’t do as much as I thought they would and I am more focused on the city job instead of the service. It did show me how much work goes into being a firefighter that doesn’t necessarily have to do with fighting actual fires. I also learned a bit about a ship. For example we cleaned a lot and there wasn’t much action because we were just stationed on a stationed boat. My uncle was getting ready to leave for a tour so thy were more or less getting ready for that instead. 

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