[El Tejon]

STATUS AND THANK YOU

For all of you from TFL who remember my posts concerning my pathetic attempts to pass along the little knowledge I possess to a female LEO with no experience with shotguns, I am sad to report that this morning in pre-trials she advised that she did not survive her second round of interviews and received the official rejection letter from the FBI on March 18th.

Thank you to those that e-mailed me concerning her progress. And thank you very much to those of you who were kind enough to take time from your schedule and help me with this problem. I honestly had never seen a problem like that and it stunned me. Of course, that was my first time to attempt to instruct a female.

Thanks again. If nothing else, I helped her to seek better instruction some day and it helped me in removing my own narrow focus.

[Soap]

Thanks for the update! Regardless of the rejection, both your lives are now enriched and embettered due to the attempt.

[cratz2]

Bum deal... But I'm sure she will do well in another chosen or related field.

[Dave McCracken]

Sorry to hear the bad news. The good news is she can shoot, a valuable skill in troubled times.

[Lone Star]

For what it's worth, I read a book by a retired female FBI agent...who can't correctly spell, "SIG-Sauer".

This lady doesn't like guns, which I guess her publisher thought was a swell point to make. Anyway, she really bleated about having to fire the shotgun in training, and suggested that the instructors made her do it as often as they did because they were sexist.

Lone Star

[El Tejon]

Lone Star, yeah, she read that book before she came to me and the shotgun stuff terrified her. What's the name of it?

[Lone Star]

El Tejon-

I believe the author is Candace/Candice DeLong. I think the title may be, "Special Agent". Unsure; been awhile since I read it.

Run the author's name through your library's computer; I bet you'll get a "hit". You can probably also check on it via Amazon, etc.

I re-qualified with a Remington M870 firing three-inch buckshot, the OO sort. This was a month or so ago. It KICKED! I don't think I'd like DeLong personally, but she had that part down pat. But I don't know that the instructors were necessarily sexist. Frankly, women, through Affirmitive Action, have many chances of hiring/promotion that males don't. This may well hold true at the Bureau, as elsewhere.

She was pretty smug about her sex in some places, especially when she described her own and a female buddy's looks making them friends among fellow agents. Her pride in being selected to be "Federal pu--y" in undercover assignments was appparent, and she got a kick out of describing her teenage son's attraction to the other gal she liked. I think she "worked" her gender both ways, whenever it was to her advantage, both at the Bureau and with her publisher.

Lone Star

[El Tejon]

Lone Star, thanks much. I'll have to check it out. There's a few bookstores across the river downtown here, I'll walk over at lunch (better than eating).

If she read it, maybe other potential female shooters have as well.:confused: