Ctc Ii 08 [Archive]

CHPwannaBE

03-02-2008, 12:12 PM

Good luck to you all in the academy. I see you are going from the military to the CHP, nice! A lot of people just don't have the discipline and can't handle someone yelling at them telling them what to do. Add the fact they are away from their families and friends, unfortunately some won't be able to tough it out. I am sure you will do fine, best of luck.

PH3N@M

03-02-2008, 02:28 PM

There should have been approximately 100 invites sent out. There will be lots more, this class is a tentative 210 person class.

ldsnewbie

03-02-2008, 02:58 PM

I believe I did my psych interview in mid december. I was actually called five days before CTC 1 08 to see if I wanted to go to that academy, but I was not ready at the time.

Soon2BeCHP

03-02-2008, 07:37 PM

I received my letter yesterday to attend ctc II 08. CHP Academy here I come.

Wow, that's awesome! Congrats! I am anxiously awaiting an invite myself. Hope to see you in Sac.

mmachp

03-02-2008, 07:44 PM

I just took my written exam. If I pass everything and all goes swimmingly, is the July academy still out of the question?

JavGonz

03-02-2008, 07:48 PM

Wow.. I never got a DQ letter, so I'm hoping to get an invite also. I'm going to be all over my mailbox from now on!

Goodluck to you guys and I really hope to meet some of you in West Sac.

Jumie

03-02-2008, 07:51 PM

Wow.. I never got a DQ letter, so I'm hoping to get an invite also. I'm going to be all over my mailbox from now on!

Goodluck to you guys and I really hope to meet some of you in West Sac.

I had my psych interview on the 15 Jan 08. I hope to get my letter of inv. too. Good luck to you.

highwayranger2008

03-02-2008, 09:09 PM

WOW!! Congrats on your invite! I can only imagine the feeling you got opening the letter knowing you finaly got a shot at becoming an officer with the CHP! I'm still waiting for my chance..:biggrin:

highwayranger2008

03-02-2008, 11:19 PM

There should have been approximately 100 invites sent out. There will be lots more, this class is a tentative 210 person class.

Officer PH3N@M sir,

If close to a 100 invites were sent out does that mean the other 110 potential cadets of the tentative 210 person goal are in other various hiring stages in the process? If so is it safe to assume that the SPB and CHP will be doing there best to get us through the rest of the process as quick as possible? Not to say they are not already doing this and I'm sure there are mounds of paper work to look over and certify, but if there is more of an emphasis on meeting this 210 cadet goal or do they just fill as many positions as possible as applicants become cleared to go. Also Does the SPB and/or CHP keep track of the potential cadets who are waiting for either there medical or psych to be finnished and try to push them along more than usual? Just curious because some posts by applicants have stated in the past that it can, and has taken them 6+ weeks to receive a psych appointment after there medical then another few weeks for the results. So I'm not sure if I will be done by the time this class is ready to report for camp snoopy. I guess I will just patiently wait for a phone call to schedule an appointment. :smile:

lizmagana

03-03-2008, 07:25 AM

:biggrin: Im thinking that the CTC-II 08 would be the best time to go up to the academy, weather wise. I wanna go!!! :razz: I mean all through out the summer and into October. But, thats just me, I like the heat of the summer... Congrats! Im not even sure how I did in the QAP yet so Im thinking if all goes well Ill make it to the CTC I 09 academy, :doh: if Im lucky enough at all!:cool:

Congrats again and good luck.

Miami2Cali

03-03-2008, 08:57 AM

It's interesting to read under the different posts and see the timeline of the application process for some of you. Some I see get pushed through real quick while some take a bit longer. I guess it depends on your background and case load for the investigator? Good luck to you guys! :cool:

Soon2BeCHP

03-03-2008, 06:51 PM

I just recieved my invite to CTC II-08 as well! :biggrin: Thank you all who have helped me through the process. I look forward to working with you all.

Jumie

03-03-2008, 07:23 PM

I just recieved my invite to CTC II-08 as well! :biggrin: Thank you all who have helped me through the process. I look forward to working with you all.

Congrat! I got my letter today too. Looking forward to CTC II-08. See you guys up there:neutral:

jrsfan

03-03-2008, 07:47 PM

Congrats to all so far. A friend's boyfriend got his invite today as well. One of you needs to start planning the pre-pick up day dinner. It's tradition! And should any of you have any questions on family issues, or what to pack, I am available to help. Lastly, if your wife or girlfriend is looking for help in any way, please pm me - we have a great group put together already.

PH3N@M

03-03-2008, 09:03 PM

If close to a 100 invites were sent out does that mean the other 110 potential cadets of the tentative 210 person goal are in other various hiring stages in the process?

Yes.

If so is it safe to assume that the SPB and CHP will be doing there best to get us through the rest of the process as quick as possible?

Don't ever assume, SPB is not connected to our department and yes they take there own sweet time. The department will do everything it can to fill the class.

Not to say they are not already doing this and I'm sure there are mounds of paper work to look over and certify, but if there is more of an emphasis on meeting this 210 cadet goal or do they just fill as many positions as possible as applicants become cleared to go.

The class will be filled with as many qualified applicants as we can get up to 210.

Also Does the SPB and/or CHP keep track of the potential cadets who are waiting for either there medical or psych to be finnished and try to push them along more than usual?

It depends.

Just curious because some posts by applicants have stated in the past that it can, and has taken them 6+ weeks to receive a psych appointment after there medical then another few weeks for the results.

Everyone is different. There is no way to compare two applicants. There are way too many variables.

So I'm not sure if I will be done by the time this class is ready to report for camp snoopy. I guess I will just patiently wait for a phone call to schedule an appointment. :smile:

You'll know if your done if you get an invite to the class before it starts.

JavGonz

03-03-2008, 10:03 PM

I got an invite as well! (Happiest moment in my life... so far)

cg2chp

03-04-2008, 08:41 AM

Received my invite yesterday! Looking forward to seeing all of you in April.

9C1

03-04-2008, 09:05 AM

Hey everyone! I got my welcome packet yesterday, too! :biggrin:
What an incredible, motivating moment that was!
Thanks to everyone for your help and advice.
Soon the REAL work will begin!

SD1377

03-04-2008, 10:02 AM

Just received my invitation packet yesterday to CTC-II-08!! Feels like so long ago that I began the application process. :shock: All worth it! I look forward to seeing you all in April!

CHPREK

03-04-2008, 01:24 PM

Just received my invitation as well. Looking forward to working with all of you in the near future.

BunnyHunter

03-04-2008, 02:14 PM

Congratulations!! I know all too well what you all are feeling right now. It's crazy to think that, late last year we were struggling to get everything in order for the big transition. Although it seems just like yesterday, we have sure come a long way.

If there are any spouses that need anything just let me know.

Enjoy the time you have and use it wisely, once you get there it will be hectic.

My so can't wait for you all to arrive. :lol:

bplusmc

03-04-2008, 06:39 PM

Good luck too all of you and I wish you the best!! Its killing me to sit in idle waiting to do my background :cry:, but I'll see you someday.

cg+fd2chp

03-05-2008, 01:27 AM

Received my invite yesterday! Looking forward to seeing all of you in April.

Congratulations

:hitwall: jealous

mjbrown1986

03-05-2008, 04:37 PM

Ditto! I'll see you there! Best of luck to you!

T-Rex

03-06-2008, 10:38 AM

Congrats ladies and gentlemen! :wink:

USMC_0311

03-07-2008, 01:33 PM

Just received my invitation packet as well, It feels great. I can't wait to see everyone there. I would also like to thank all of the officers on this forum for their advice. Now I have to go run!!!!:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

MP79

03-07-2008, 09:49 PM

I received my invite today! :biggrin: See you all soon!

cowtown

03-09-2008, 07:34 AM

03-09-2008, 05:09 PM

I read CTC-1's blog, and saw the pics about the exposure to the cs gas(tear gas) at the academy. can someone who has experienced this describe the feeling? Sure. The feeling is about ten times better than OC spray. With CS when you inhale, well.... You wish that you hadn't.

One of the guys looked like he was about to trhow up. I also noticed every other officer had a gas mask. What criteria determines who gets to wear one?I believe the current Cadet training puts everyone through both with and without masks.

bcjack

03-09-2008, 06:46 PM

Sure. The feeling is about ten times better than OC spray. With CS when you inhale, well.... You wish that you hadn't.

I believe the current Cadet training puts everyone through both with and without masks.

CS is a choking agent and works a little slower than CN or OC. Waaaaay back when, I was told CS has a "special" name "chicken s*** because it was so bad that you had to be "chicken s*** to use it on someone.

CN is a tearing agent and OC is.....Nasty stuff!!! With OC, you get the tearing and the choking both!!!

Mac

03-09-2008, 09:32 PM

I read CTC-1's blog, and saw the pics about the exposure to the cs gas(tear gas) at the academy. can someone who has experienced this describe the feeling?
Happy to help.....It sucks. Bad.

Didn't come anywhere near making my list of "Top 100 Most Fun Things I've Done In My Life".

...One of the guys looked like he was about to trhow up....
Not an uncommon reaction. When you can't see, can't breathe and are hacking your guts up, vomiting is the logical next step....along with dangling 2-foot long stringers of snot from your nostrils. Good times.

Yzeman

03-09-2008, 09:51 PM

I read CTC-1's blog, and saw the pics about the exposure to the cs gas(tear gas) at the academy. can someone who has experienced this describe the feeling? One of the guys looked like he was about to trhow up. I also noticed every other officer had a gas mask. What criteria determines who gets to wear one?

See Below...

Happy to help.....It sucks. Bad.
....along with dangling 2-foot long stringers of snot from your nostrils. Good times.

The phrase 'Sling'in snot like a Bramma Bull' comes to mind!

My memory of it is simple:
CN or CS gas (don't remember....or care....which one it was) = http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/basic/puke.gif
OC = http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/basic/atomic.gif

That about covers it!

cal911gal

03-09-2008, 10:19 PM

I don't care who ya are, that puking green smilie is hecka funny......

Getting gassed - not funny!

RodeoChippie

03-10-2008, 06:23 AM

But the good news is that its not nearly as bad as the Taser ride:shock:

FromTheNorth

03-10-2008, 08:31 AM

was learning spanish hard on top of everything else?

cowtown

03-10-2008, 08:35 AM

wow. thanks a lot for your responses everybody. now I know what to look forward to if I get in!!:redface::wink:

AaeJae

03-10-2008, 11:09 AM

When I went through two classes ago, we each took a mask because we had to guide the guys without masks through. Then it was our turn. CS gas isn't that bad. It is for some, but for me I was like, "That's it?" Granted I didn't stand there to inhale as much as I could. It burned, but that was it.

OC SUCKS. And I considered suicide. When you get hit, you don't care about anybody else in the world, you want water.

Hydabrink

03-10-2008, 12:35 PM

So does everybody have to get tased also?

CHPwannaBE

03-11-2008, 02:07 PM

So does everybody have to get tased also?

The new CTC 3-07 cadet blog has answered your question.:biggrin:

lilnardey

03-11-2008, 03:40 PM

The new CTC 3-07 cadet blog has answered your question.:biggrin:

That doesn't seem like it's going to be a fun ride... :shock:

Hydabrink

03-11-2008, 04:06 PM

So what exactly is the meaning that they have you go through being gassed, pepper sprayed, and tasered? They might as well add being shot while wearing a bullet proof vest.

j_way

03-11-2008, 04:34 PM

Wow, I just found this forum. I received my acceptance letter last week... this site would have been nice to find a few months ago.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to meeting all of you in April!

bcjack

03-11-2008, 05:35 PM

So what exactly is the meaning that they have you go through being gassed, pepper sprayed, and tasered? They might as well add being shot while wearing a bullet proof vest.

No such thing!!! Bullet RESISTANT vest.

Hydabrink

03-11-2008, 11:21 PM

No such thing!!! Bullet RESISTANT vest.
Well sorry to say but there is a such thing!!! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_vest)

uoplax13

03-12-2008, 08:50 AM

If you are lucky enough to make it to the academy, raise your hand and ask one of the range staff if our vests are bullet resistant or bullet-proof.

As for the "meaning" of getting gassed, OC'd and tasered.......it means just that, you get gassed and OC'd. I don't know about the taser part of it- it was voluntary (sort of) for some of the guys in our class. If you're asking what the point of it is, well you need to be able to function in a CS environment and you need to know how you react to OC. Being in the field wrestling with some guy and getting some blowback OC in your eyes and realizing that it totally incapacitates you is not the time to figure it out. Getting deployed to a riot and finding out that CS is not your friend is also an inappropriate time and place to learn, etc.... hopefully you get the point. Based on my experience of getting OC'd and "tased" I can now testify in court as to why lethal force was necessary if somebody ever comes at me with OC or a taser.

Worry about getting to the academy, not about what goes on there. It'd be pretty difficult to get killed at the academy. If and when you get to that point, just remember: Pain is temporary.

jcalder

03-12-2008, 08:09 PM

I recieved my letter about a week ago. I can't wait to leave. I sent in my first application over a year ago. Finally it produces results. To all else who haven't heard yet, don't sit idle and get soft. Hit the gym, go run, do whatever. I need to hear that just as much as the next guy.

Yzeman

03-12-2008, 08:27 PM

If you are lucky enough to make it to the academy, raise your hand and ask one of the range staff if our vests are bullet resistant or bullet-proof.

+1!! I think we've already had the "Wikipedia vs. Accuracy" argument, and Accuracy lapped the competition! I would go one further and suggest that you print a copy of the Wikipedia page and show it to the range staff...just to prove it's true.

I recieved my letter about a week ago. I can't wait to leave. I sent in my first application over a year ago. Finally it produces results. To all else who haven't heard yet, don't sit idle and get soft. Hit the gym, go run, do whatever. I need to hear that just as much as the next guy.

Congrats!!

bcjack

03-12-2008, 08:34 PM

Well sorry to say but there is a such thing!!! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_vest)

A common mis-label of a garment. I guarantee that if I shot your Level III Ballistic Vest with a .308, it would pass through it like a hot knife through butter. If I took my Dan Wesson .44 mag. and shot your Level II-A vest, you would be called "Holy".

Using the term "Bullet Proof" to describe the typical ballistic vest that LE Officers wear can lead the new officer to believing he has much larger balls than he really does, and it can get his butt dead.:think:

Good luck in the academy...

Mac

03-13-2008, 06:28 AM

...Using the term "Bullet Proof" to describe the typical ballistic vest that LE Officers wear can lead the new officer to believing he has much larger balls than he really does, and it can get his butt dead.:think:

But.....but.....that's what they call it on TV!!! :badgrin:

Nobody is forced to do anything at the Academy. Anything that you do, you are doing purely of your own volition because you want to be an officer badly enough that you're willing to suck it up and do whatever it takes to earn that privilege. You can choose not to apply in the first place, or you can choose to turn in your trash and check out at any time during the Academy if it doesn't make sense to you why you're being instructed to do something. The Academy is not soft and it is not easy - and neither is this career.

BunnyHunter

03-13-2008, 08:08 AM

....... trash .......

Oh the word that haunts me in my sleep.

The first time I heard my cadet tell me that he had to pack up all of his trash before he went back Sunday night I freaked out. My only thought was "What in the world are they going to do with our trash?". :hitwall:

08CHPhopeful

03-13-2008, 04:26 PM

I received a call today from the CHU,,,,,I'M IN!!!!!!!
4 WORKING DAYS AFTER MY PSYCH!!!!! See you all in Sac. 4/28!:biggrin:

CHPwannaBE

03-13-2008, 04:35 PM

I received a call today from the CHU,,,,,I'M IN!!!!!!!
4 WORKING DAYS AFTER MY PSYCH!!!!! See you all in Sac. 4/28!:biggrin:

Congratulations and best of luck in the academy now get out and run!!!

CHP Explorer

03-14-2008, 05:43 PM

Ill See you guy's there!

highwayranger2008

03-25-2008, 09:55 PM

Ill See you guy's there!

CONGRATS!! I was an CHP Explorer Lt. for 3 years and adviser for 2. Good times!:biggrin:

star1983

05-13-2008, 06:09 PM

What is the general pass/fail ratio for the written? When I took the test on 5/3, there were two sessions. (Each session had about 300 people) I received a passing score (65) and I have to do the PAT's this Saturday. I was wondering if anybody had any advice on continuing in the process? Any little bit would be greatly appreciated. :biggrin: