Oc Sprayed Essay
The night before our class was going to get OC sprayed I was excited and couldn’t wait to get it over with. After we got sprayed we were basically done with the academy and all that was left was graduation to start our career. I went to bed early the night before to get my rest for the next day. When we arrived at the academy and started to talk about getting sprayed and how you should spray someone I was getting anxious and wanted to get it over with. Some of my classmates and I were joking around in how we think we will react and how much people said that it will hurt. Soon after we took the OC exam we made our way to the gym and started setting up. At this point it hit me that I am number 2 so that means I am the second person to go through the course.
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When we all lined up by the gym exit my heart started to race because of the thought of how much pain everyone says that you go through. When it was my turn I walked outside picked up the radio and closed my eyes. Then I hear “Spray” and the OC hits my face and all I thought was “dam this is going to hurt” so I opened my eyes and said the line we were supposed to dispatch and the pain didn’t hit me yet but as I blinked and it went into my eyes the burning started. All I thought was “I have to get through this” so I walked into the gym and did the course calmly even though it hurt pretty badly.
But since the pain that I imagined was worse than actuality it was easy to fight the pain. After I was done with the course I made my way out side with my partner to decontaminate. I washed my face very well with the baby shampoo and water. Once I was done washing my face and stepped back from the water I felt like my face was burning 30 times worse. For the next 15-20 minutes the pain of the burning was frustrating me because I would get used to it then it would get worse. But after those 20 min for the next 10 min it slowly got better. After about 30 min of decontamination I was better and I started to help others calm down because I knew that if you were left alone it was harder to calm down. Once we were done and back in the class room we all talked about what happened and I felt that was a way to kind of distress from what we went through. It felt good to talk about how everyone reacted to the OC but what I noticed is that some people still had some effects from it even an hour and a half after being sprayed and some people didn’t have any more reaction to it after about 45
min. When I got home that evening I was a little hesitant about taking a shower because of the stories I was told. So I showered with my undergarments on but once I washed my head I didn’t feel any effects besides my ears burning a little so I knew that I pretty much had most of the OC off of me. That night I didn’t have any effects of the OC but as I talk to some classmates that morning some people were still feeling the spray and as we were sitting at work their eyes started to get red as well as their face. Getting OC sprayed in the academy I understand why the PTC requires it because going through it you will know what the other person will be going through when you get in a situation at work and are planning to use it. After this ordeal I will use my OC spray with consideration of the people I will be interacting with day to day at work and not use it when the situation doesn’t really need it 100 present because it is really painful and should be used with discretion.
When we all lined up by the gym exit my heart started to race because of the thought of how much pain everyone says that you go through. When it was my turn I walked outside picked up the radio and closed my eyes. Then I hear “Spray” and the OC hits my face and all I thought was “dam this is going to hurt” so I opened my eyes and said the line we were supposed to dispatch and the pain didn’t hit me yet but as I blinked and it went into my eyes the burning started. All I thought was “I have to get through this” so I walked into the gym and did the course calmly even though it hurt pretty badly.
But since the pain that I imagined was worse than actuality it was easy to fight the pain. After I was done with the course I made my way out side with my partner to decontaminate. I washed my face very well with the baby shampoo and water. Once I was done washing my face and stepped back from the water I felt like my face was burning 30 times worse. For the next 15-20 minutes the pain of the burning was frustrating me because I would get used to it then it would get worse. But after those 20 min for the next 10 min it slowly got better. After about 30 min of decontamination I was better and I started to help others calm down because I knew that if you were left alone it was harder to calm down. Once we were done and back in the class room we all talked about what happened and I felt that was a way to kind of distress from what we went through. It felt good to talk about how everyone reacted to the OC but what I noticed is that some people still had some effects from it even an hour and a half after being sprayed and some people didn’t have any more reaction to it after about 45
min. When I got home that evening I was a little hesitant about taking a shower because of the stories I was told. So I showered with my undergarments on but once I washed my head I didn’t feel any effects besides my ears burning a little so I knew that I pretty much had most of the OC off of me. That night I didn’t have any effects of the OC but as I talk to some classmates that morning some people were still feeling the spray and as we were sitting at work their eyes started to get red as well as their face. Getting OC sprayed in the academy I understand why the PTC requires it because going through it you will know what the other person will be going through when you get in a situation at work and are planning to use it. After this ordeal I will use my OC spray with consideration of the people I will be interacting with day to day at work and not use it when the situation doesn’t really need it 100 present because it is really painful and should be used with discretion.