This New Stuff

[thebitterguy]

They have this new stuff that, swear to God, just melts fingerprint ink right off your hands. Worked like a charm. I was impressed.

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[thebitterguy]

Today would make it twice. The first time was for my security clearance when I was joining the reserves. Now, I have to get a background check done.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Fingerprint ink is slowly becoming a thing of the past.

In county jails, they have machines that scan your prints in.

And they have portable ones that they use for background checks and stuff, too; I just saw a news story on the local news about stronger background checks for teachers, and they showed one of the portable ones (hooks up to a notebook computer.)

[thebitterguy]

Wow. Nope, I had ink & paper today.

With an integrated system, I'd probably have had to pay for the processing as well as the actual fingerprinting at the same time. So, yeah, that's good.

[(Anonymous)]

Hell, the school system I work for has one of the fingerprint scanner things. Much easier than ink.
Mrs. Badass

[deven-science.livejournal.com]

You're in the reserves? What branch?

[thebitterguy]

I was in the naval reserves. For a very short time. You can read all about it here.

[deven-science.livejournal.com]

It took me a while of reading before I remembered that it would be the Canadian Naval Reserves. I kept going, what the hell is with all these strange base names, and odd terms? It's like the navy from a different country or something. IT IS a navy from a different country. Duh. I am in the naval reserves(US, of course), and have been for 12+ years now. I'm in the Seabees. You know, Construction Battalion. Get it? Seabee. CB. Anyhoo, Do you have a separate boot camp for reserves? Cause at the time I went, we didn't, so I went to navy boot camp for 9 weeks, plus 11 weeks after that for my actual job training. I was gone from home for about 6 months. Boot camp = not fun. The 11 week "A" school = good times.

[thebitterguy]

Usually (at least at the time I was in, which is a while now) training was done at the home unit. The year I was in was the first year they were training reserve agents at a reg force base.

So, yeah, 100% on Boot Camp. I never got to my trades training.

I'm familiar with the SeaBees; I saw Police Academy II, after all.

[deven-science.livejournal.com]

Uh-oh. It's been so long since I've seen a Police Academy movie, I have no idea the reference you speak of. Now I might have to watch it sometime.

[thebitterguy]

There's a scene where Mahoney (the gun guy) is dating a fellow officer and goes to meet her family. Her dad used to be a Seabee (he and her brother get into amusing slapstick brawls during dinner).

It might have been III, actually. I can never remember.