01/07/2026
Dear Admin,
This is directed towards any administrator that needs to hear the truth. Your men and women talk and we hear them, we know the feelings they share and we know their displeasure. But there is a deeper issue with all of this.
Your failure to recognize and care for your people from the start of their career to the very end is going to kill them. Your failure to commit to furthering them through training, or mental health is going to kill them and that is blood on your hands.
Whether that person is your favorite employee or not, you are failing your people by not investing in them.
To that same point, if they do take their own life or die in the line of duty, you owe everything to that person. That person was a human being with a family, acknowledge them, share their story, love them as a human and not just the career they had.
Do better administrators, the office chair is comfortable, but there’s men and women suffering beneath you.
We are here for you - you are NOT alone. We serve first responders nationwide, reachout. We will support you.
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