Gideon Ashe
One of the Regulars
- Messages
- 108
- Location
- Greater Miami, Florida
I better qualify my comments. Bear with me.
I am an old guy.
72 years old. (I feel like 92. But who's counting)
Maybe not the oldest person here.
Probably one of the newest.
I have ten years of active duty split between the Marines and Air Force.
I became a municipal police officer in 1963/4. (when Baggers carried "jacks, claws and saps").
I became a Detective in 1966.
Gideon,(no relation) Escobedo and Miranda were very new concepts.
Good guys were. Bad guys were. Sometimes they switched roles.
I was recruited to become a Deputy U.S. Marshal in 1970; working the Fugitive Squad and Witness Protection.
In 1972 they (the Marshal's Service) assigned me to D.A.L.E. (Drug Abuse Law Enforcement)the agency that covered the drug violations subject between the phasing out of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, and the newly formed Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
After a year I was recruited to an "alpha-bet" agency doing investigative/intelligence things. Bored, I applied for a position with the U.S.Customs Service and was accepted as a Patrol Officer.
Two years later I was a Port Investigator, then a Supervisory Patrol Officer.
a little luck bought me a job as an Intelligence Officer, and then Special Agent.
I investigated mostly money laundering, technology transfers, and drug and weapons smuggling violations, but have a pretty sound range of fraud and general investigations as well.
I honorably retired after a total of thirty four years and eleven months, in law enforcement.
After retirement I worked as a Grant funded Intelligence analyst for a couple of local Police departments, but I have found that my ability to put up with administratively created BS has completely evaporated.
I have a particular interest in personal weapons, and rarely pass a week without firing 300 or more rounds, from a large caliber handgun(which I carry everyday, as I have since getting out of the police academy in 1964)
I recently have added frequent firing of an AR-15 type carbine.
Off the subject at hand, I am an avid fan of Jazz; with a large collection of Stan Getz, Kenny Barron, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderly, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, and other "vintage musical geniuses".
I chew cigars, drink Talisker or Lagavulin, and like Jack Vettriano prints.
I have a pretty neat collection of vintage clothing stuff. A lot of it purchased when it was new and in style the first time. I still wear it.
Man,...this is like therapy.
I am an old guy.
72 years old. (I feel like 92. But who's counting)
Maybe not the oldest person here.
Probably one of the newest.
I have ten years of active duty split between the Marines and Air Force.
I became a municipal police officer in 1963/4. (when Baggers carried "jacks, claws and saps").
I became a Detective in 1966.
Gideon,(no relation) Escobedo and Miranda were very new concepts.
Good guys were. Bad guys were. Sometimes they switched roles.
I was recruited to become a Deputy U.S. Marshal in 1970; working the Fugitive Squad and Witness Protection.
In 1972 they (the Marshal's Service) assigned me to D.A.L.E. (Drug Abuse Law Enforcement)the agency that covered the drug violations subject between the phasing out of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, and the newly formed Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
After a year I was recruited to an "alpha-bet" agency doing investigative/intelligence things. Bored, I applied for a position with the U.S.Customs Service and was accepted as a Patrol Officer.
Two years later I was a Port Investigator, then a Supervisory Patrol Officer.
a little luck bought me a job as an Intelligence Officer, and then Special Agent.
I investigated mostly money laundering, technology transfers, and drug and weapons smuggling violations, but have a pretty sound range of fraud and general investigations as well.
I honorably retired after a total of thirty four years and eleven months, in law enforcement.
After retirement I worked as a Grant funded Intelligence analyst for a couple of local Police departments, but I have found that my ability to put up with administratively created BS has completely evaporated.
I have a particular interest in personal weapons, and rarely pass a week without firing 300 or more rounds, from a large caliber handgun(which I carry everyday, as I have since getting out of the police academy in 1964)
I recently have added frequent firing of an AR-15 type carbine.
Off the subject at hand, I am an avid fan of Jazz; with a large collection of Stan Getz, Kenny Barron, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderly, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, and other "vintage musical geniuses".
I chew cigars, drink Talisker or Lagavulin, and like Jack Vettriano prints.
I have a pretty neat collection of vintage clothing stuff. A lot of it purchased when it was new and in style the first time. I still wear it.
Man,...this is like therapy.