I don't usually post articles, I'm better off reading them. I feel Ineed to chime in a little on this one.
I've been in ems for about sixteen years, the last ten as a paramedic, about that time ,I also gpt involved with our local police dept.,when they decided to assemble a swat team. We are a small town in rural mississippi, but we are a university town, so there a lot of ethnic diversity. to cut to the chase, I've been with most of the same guys since the onset, we have had a turn over, and new people come on board. I train tactically with the team, I know how to handle firearms of all types. I know my officers medical history as well as the family dr does. they know me and they trust me, I'm not the world's best medic, but to them I am. During training, it's like being a trainer for a sports team.
TEMS is probably over machoed, if that's a word. But the officers I work with like having me around.