(bagpipe music)
(Game Warden) Ready.
Aim.
Fire.
(gun shots)
(Game Warden) Read.
Aim.
Fire.
(gun shots)
(Game Warden) Read.
Aim.
Fire.
(gun shots)
[Shane Teeters] The heart tells us it has to be perfect.
It has to be perfect for that man that fell in the line of duty, and it has to be perfect
for his family.
[Brad Meloni] To have the opportunity to be part of that
is just a great honor.
And you do that for the respect of that warden and their family.
[Kathleen Stuman] To do this for this fellow officer is an honor.
[Arthur McCall] It's a matter of respect.
And if we want to pay respect to these people then we've got to do our part and do it perfectly,
and we do.
[Captain Danny Shaw] We feel so strongly that if we loose an officer
in the line of duty we as Game Wardens want to represent our own.
[Arthur McCall] It's only fitting that we should stand behind
them and support them and show . . . show our love for these boys.
[Shane Teeters] It's our agency, it's our pride as Game Wardens.
Everybody that serves on the Honor Guard is voluntary members.
They're fellow Game Wardens.
[Brad Meloni] The group of guys that I get to work with
are outstanding.
Never once have they complained.
We haven't been to a place, or done any event or funeral that has been the same.
And we've had to adapt and adjust and everybody just pulls together, works real hard.
And I, you know I wouldn't want to do this with anybody else but the guys that are on
the team.
They're really top notch.
[Kathleen Stuman] I think it's not a job, it's just something
that we think that if it happened to me, this is what I would want.
And that's the way we all think of it as.
[Arthur McCall] When we're doing our rifle team ceremony,
the whole time what's going through my mind is being able to in some way show these people
that we are thinking of them.
And, it's not something I want to do again.
But we do do it.
[Captain Danny Shaw] What this group displays is what you see in
a Game Warden that wears this uniform -- very high moral values, pride, respect, honor,
trust, love -- they want it to be perfect because they want to portray the image of
Texas Parks and Wildlife and the Law Enforcement Division.
[Shane Teeters] When a Game Warden is selected and gets to
attend the academy, he's going to be the best of the best.
And that in itself, these Wardens that volunteer to get on the Honor Guard are already the
best of the best.
(bagpipe music)
But within themselves, within the love that they have for their job and their fellow officer,
the respect and carrying they have for that officer's family, when the crisis comes, when
we get called, they are an unique individual.
You know that they are the best, of the best, of the best, because they have stepped up
to the plate.
Not because they had to, because they wanted to.