for the next 72 hours I'm checking in as a cadet at the Pennsylvania state trooper academy
I'm gonna experience three days of what a cadet goes through during this 26-week curriculum
welcome to episode two
the second day at the academy i was already tired and sore and fatigued
from the first day of pt but this was gonna absolutely destroy my legs
it was a four-mile run not just a typical four-mile run it was uphill like this
at one point I was running I was thinking gaahleeee does this hill ever come to an end
and i knew i had the room inspection coming up later in the afternoon and
that made it even worse one thing about pt
you got to be enthusiastic about it
if you're not it's really going to suck really good miles today 3.7 miles total
time 36 minutes average pace 9 minutes 44 seconds if you're coming to Pennsylvania
state trooper academy be sure you're practicing on some hills because you're gonna get roasted
so the food for me was a positive experience I wish we could have more meal times but overall
the food was pretty good to me being on KP is a nice every once in a while gets you a break
from doing the morning runs and the morning workouts it's definitely tough work it takes
up a lot of time during the day but i like to give my legs a break for a week
so i'm in here and kind of adding my final layer of everything that
i think looks correctly we have all of clark's items set out right here we have handcuffs of keys
bed is squared away i'm getting ready for this inspection we have an official inspection this
afternoon i think that's good i'm going to get inspected everything from my uniform down
so i know i don't have a proper shave because my face really breaks out but
we're going to get through this we're going to get through this together legend let's do this
i'm going to be going through our three gun combat course this is our final course of
fire that we'll run our cadets through and it's going to basically be a culmination of
all their firearms training that they receive here at the academy they'll be stressed out
they'll jog down they'll get the heart rate up they'll be wearing their their heavy armor
and then some things will happen that they're not prepared for and we need to see them react all
three scenarios there will be firearms involved in them uh all three are different and all three
we're looking for some different outcomes in these scenarios with engagements obviously
with accurate hits being stressed out and some things happen all right so austin's gonna jog down
start of the combat force i had three scenarios to complete at the shooting range goal here is to
get the heart rate up of the shooter scenario basically being that he just pulled up to a
convenience store he's radiant in the dispatch that he's there letting them know he's going
to be out of the vehicle grabbing something to eat and then some things are going to take place
all right so the sun bad guy jumps up
i had never shot through a winchell before which is pretty cool
when you see the instructor appear to throw something at me that was a tennis ball supposed
to simulate me getting hit in the leg and i had to wrap a tourniquet on while taking cover
and make sure the tourniquet was applied correctly to stop the bleeding
the second scenario i had an ar-15 i had never used a red dot sight
before usually i would just use the iron sights but red dot made me super accurate
and i feel like each target hit hit you hear that ping that's accuracy yeah
cover all right
advance on your target engaging the threat so you're ready go now
fire fire fire the holster i was using was a double retention hip holster i'm
so used to using a triple retention thigh holster you know seven years in the navy my muscle memory
is programmed to use a triple retention thigh holster so it's kind of hard for me to adjust
thirteen scenario was a mix between long range and short range so i was shooting from long
range initially and then running pretty good ways probably about 150 yards up to short range targets
still able to maintain the accuracy a pretty good bit
although there are a few targets that i did miss
you hear shooting from inside you're screaming go get him go get him go get him
get him get him get him
and clear clear holster insecure i'm sweaty i'm hot gorgeous fire went great it wasn't we couldn't
talk about overall score for the shooting range in fear that it would ruin it for future cadets
and current cadets so we won't spoil that for the cadets that have not gone through this course yet
i feel like it went well good not too bad for you know being out of the navy for a year i'm
a little rusty but a lot of things i remembered who's your obsessed monster who are you is that
your last name sir alexander sir is this a new uniform you put on today sir yes sir what the
hell's all over you're calling all over your pants no way he's got stuff on his pants already there's
no way it's the first time turn around stuff over your shoulder oh my gosh what the hell is going on
my name is trooper jonathan cox i've been at the academy here in pennsylvania
approximately 19 months what is it sir i'm not sure i'm not sure either fix it now don't move
now turn around right now turn back around right now pick your hat before it falls out
some of the things we look for specifically sorry yes sir measurements on the beds the
creases the folds we're wrong here their shelf their clothing is an iron pressed buttons button
zipper zipped your eyes were closed weren't they look at your gig line you know what kick line is
anything that's crucial and important you do know what it is what is it what is it no tell
me what it is it's a belt lined up with the pants lined up with a shirt is that lined up
sir no sir not even close fixed it i knew that i was gonna get it step back get off my wall story
yes sir sir yes sir give me some damn volume sir yes sir every time i want to hear volume
really history oh yes sir say something every time sorry yes sir i just didn't know how they
were gonna approach it sir why you got off your pants down sorry yes sir wipe it off
sorry yes sir sir yes sir let me hear you scream sorry yes sir sorry yes sir
sorry yes sir now you're young you shave your face today sir no sir no sir yeah sir no sir
sir not sir no sir not sir no sir are you kidding me are you kidding are you kidding him sir no sir
what are you doing what's so funny we save our baby yes sir ridiculous get off my wall attention
to detail is so important because once a cadet graduates here becomes a trooper sorry yes sir it
carries over investigations assaults drug-related incidents duis officer safety is a big issue with
that attention to detail is huge that could be the difference of being able to the solvability factor
of a case and not having that we can't follow simple direction medial tasks medial get off my
wall right here sir turn around sorry yes sir turn back around sorry yes sir you're on my wall yes
sir now get on your face sorry yes sir your feet right now serious sir get on your feet right now
we got you don't anticipate pay attention you understand yes certainly out there sir what's
so funny everything we do here alexander has a purpose there's a reason why we have our room
straight there's a reason why we shave our faces there's a reason why our gig lines are
straight you need to get with the program do you understand sorry yes sir what's up with the hair
you gq or what sir no sir oh you are fancy and you are handsome i'll give you that but that stuff's
going over the collar we can't have you understand sorry yes sir effective immediately that garbage
is gonna be on top of your head you're here sorry yes sir turn back around some point or another
you're gonna figure this out you understand that sorry yes sir we're not gonna modify our program
sir yes sir you did some things well get in here these zippers every zipper needs to be out and
every button must be buttoned you fail but you're gonna get better is that understood sorry yes sir
all right let's work on it sorry yes sir what you just saw is the treatment that a cadet would go
through in week one or week two it's very really brutal around here i messed some things up like
the gun the flashlight things like that it's not that clark taught me wrong it's just that i just
didn't pay attention and hopefully we can get this better how do i feel about it feel okay for being
here for two days but i could have listened a lot better and made the room a little better i think
either way they were gonna destroy me so thank you guys for watching this episode episode two
tomorrow we're doing a defensive driving course we're getting smoked in the pool
click right here if you want to watch episode 3 if it's out yet also alexander signing out