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Originally Posted by Seahawk
Fighting fires...primordial fear for me.
The absolute hardest thing I have done mentally in my life was Navy Shipboard Fire Fighting School, which was mandatory for pilots...the course was excellent and the instructors as professional and helpful as possible.
Me?
The trip through the tunnel of fire was neither professional on my part and I may have trampled a few folks ahead of me...I didn't, but I really wanted to. 
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Those guys looked like they had it easy! All ships crew had to go through shipboard firefighting back when I was in. Damage Control lockers didn’t have suits for all so, we trained in what we’d normally be wearing during GQ. Hoods and rebreathers only.
Personally, I loved that training and considered pursuing volunteer FF when I got out but, not as a full time career. Wouldn’t trade my decision to stay in Satcom systems Eng.
It’s funny, I can climb all over our largest antennas structures, harness or no harness and I mean all over including areas not meant for non-monkey hominids, no problems with heights.
However, the thought of climbing and maintaining radio towers makes me want to puke. I couldn’t be the guy climbing 1500ft to replace ACW lights.
