So I am 1 of a dozen Aspiring wildland firefighters that flew halfway across the country for this charade and let me be one that saves you time and effort as i can be a token of epiphany for anyone thinking about subjecting theirselves to this companies vile hiring process…Don’t, so when I decided to write this I was contemplating protecting my identity but why? I ask myself there is many who you know personally from db hiring camp that feel the way you do so with that being said this isn’t for me but anyone from the past or future who made it thru and still didn’t get hired so we gonna break this down in secetions

Test 1 they say be here at 10am for the pack test… we start at 3, everyone is chatting getting to know each other hazen bacon is the chief guy comes out yappin about what’s expected and tells us we will start soon, I’m chillin in my hammock after he’s done talking chatting wit another guy and he comes up to me like hey dude we bouta start, I told him the hammock takes a second to put up but right of the back I felt singled out but I digress on to the test

Test 1.5 we get ready to do the pack test not to my surprise ppl started strong but to me was wrong I’m a firm believer in slowly and steady wins the race so the whole way there I stayed in the middle only to turn my jets on sophisticated walking methods and huge steps to beam into the 1st place spot with the camera glazing me as I hit db headquarters, some of the db guys congratulated me although I was happy for my success I knew I still had a road ahead

Later that day we car pool to camp with other trainees we get there set up whatever and in a nutshell the rest of the day was hiking and military drills and a PowerPoint they are basically the militaristic cult face of wildland firefighting they talk about how amazing there cult is just to have people hike up and down mountains and patch them of their own dehydration till they pass out and have to be escorted out of training read me well when I tell you I was not phased by 1 of their hikes 1 of their planks or 1 of their pushups I did them without dropping or falling quitting whatever you want to call it to no avail did I drop the ball on the physical aspect of the training and no one but me can say that so that alone should tell you if I was so much in tip top shape that Such job requires why wasn’t I hired ? Well we’d have to pull 1 outta hazen bacons black book “there’s more to being a wildland firefighter”

well there must not be cus we didn’t see you do 1 hike while mr.warden was leaving us just telling us to do pushups yet we all can see you possess no real leadership otherwise you wouldn’t make grown men travel all across the country just to blaze thru your fire boi camp and not get picked see,if hazen bacon really cared about suicide and struggled with it and is so open to chime on it to strangers during camp he would know what this company does it a ultra detrimental matter to the psyche of a young masculine but that’s the minds you intertwine with daily yet with no remorse after you send the email saying people weren’t selected or how bout the ones that didn’t get a email or the ones that kept calling and you kept telling them to hang tight all these great attributes to make your company the greatest but in reality you guys are the most notorious, I dare you ask any fire company in oregon about “ da boys”

They know of them far to well, this is getting lengthy and this is just a crash course into the little bit of fuckery that was experienced this 1 might a reason i wasn’t selected because i was eating berries on the hikes. No seriously hazen bacon literally was mad some of us were eating berries on the hike I’d say it wasn’t me specifically but I was asked to stop and continued so they are salty because I got mother natures sweet nutrients to keep me going and not eating their apex alien military food yea no thanks I don’t like being forced when and when I can’t eat,

the most hilarious thing about the whole thing was they mentioned the comradeere and love that is shown on the team yet I ended up being united with guys who were selected and we unified as they had to wait 2 weeks to get dispatched yet we were renting arbnbs together enjoying each being in oregon together shared hobbies, everything db promised that group of 22 trainees that passed their weekend training ended up linking although half of us were not selected yet here we were looking out becoming buddies regardless if we were on or not see hazen bacon you will never see that genuinely considering there have been long standing employees of yours that question the company as a whole

I can go deeper but I won’t I’m tired from my amazing travels of becoming a wildland firefighter for a company that’s not bias or shows favoritism or discriminates to the highest degree but that’s a slippery slope and word on the street is your being blacklisted but I call that karma for it misses no one take care of my boys in there dustbusters aka DA BOY