Enough.

We have all lost sight of why we are here. It isn't about the color of your helmet, or the color of your gear, or even the letters that go around your name. This department was about family. It was about helping our neighbors. It was about having a group of people, friends, that you could trust and count on.

There are so many that should be just plain old ashamed of themselves. Instead of teamwork, the strive for notoriety and how many people they have on their 'side'. Yes we all have out differences, but that is what makes this so special. It should all be left at the door.

Here we are a team.

The person sitting next to you, may one day be the difference between life and death. In that very moment, do you really think you will even consider who they voted for or what the disagreed with in the last meeting. If this is what your thoughts would be,m you need to get out. Get out now.

This is not a game. This is real life. Yes, life here has been tough lately, but instead of pulling together and coming up with logistical solutions, personal agendas have been made the priority. Common good has been igmored and forgotten. Egos thrive and comraderie is dead. Unless dramatic changes happen soon, I fear this department will fail and fail miserably.

Wake up, swallow your pride and lets get back to what we all came here for in the first place. It IS possible but it is going to take everyone. Good people are being trampled and bad mouthed. People you count on to be there for you when you need them the most. Don't be surprised when one day, they aren't there. When they couldn't take it anymore and left. Who then, will you rely on?

If we work together, we can become a team; become a family again. Spite and ego need to be let go and forgotten. The back-stabbing and trash-talking have to end. Soon, those that are willing to stand up for this department will lose the will to fight. Who will be left? No one. No one you can count on.

All you will be left with is a group of people who want nothing more than to scratch your eyes out, spit on your good name and be the first to stab you in the back.

What happened to 'we are brothers'? I see no brothers here.