Badges, Bullets and Bars is brutally honest, raw, and gritty autobiographical book. It depicts the good, the bad and the awful experiences and encompasses the continuous struggle between good and evil, righteousness and injustices, suffered throughout the author's career as a former Baltimore City Police Officer. This courageous and compelling book charts the course of the author, who descends into a deep abyss from his beginning positions as a recruit, rookie, and generally innocent police cadet and later as a journeyman officer. His early life's yearning was to become a law enforcement officer and motor patrolman which he achieved. However, his shining pride, loyalty and respect for the badge began to erode over time. He was driven to alcoholism. The author ultimately disgraced the badge and became a racist, callused, hardened, jaded officer, and at times, totally uncaring, dysfunctional, troubled and possibly, mentally unstable police officer and human being all fostered by the criminal element that he had to endure during his 14-year tenure on the police force in the highest crime ridden district in Baltimore City - the Eastern District. This District was notorious for its violence, murders, rapes, drugs, filth and disregard for human life. How the good and especially the bad, horrible and jaw dropping unfathomable experiences a police officer encounters in a City overrun with violence and death, is graphically depicted in the former TV series "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "The Wire." The book also follows the author through his two criminal indictments and subsequent incarcerations, both in Federal and local correctional institutions. It allows the reader to enter a world of prison uncertainty and at times, fear and anxiety for his own life, as a former policeman. The contents of this book display how being a police officer in such an area can and will, completely change an officer's demeanor, racist thoughts, actions, and life's questions. And, at times, bring forth tears as one reflects at the inner core of all the good we learned, were raised to expect and to respect, and that which we encounter thru life's journey. This book is MUST READ for anyone, who might want to examine and understand the trials, tribulations, pressures and stress put upon a police officer working in one of the highest crime areas of our country.

From Behind the badge to behind bars - Birth to 31 This is based on his life from birth to date as he lived, this is a true story. You will hear how he was raised, abused (physically, mentally and sexually), how he trained animals, followed the goal to be a Law Enforcement Officer, came out as a gay man, got accused of murder, went to prison for robbery, released on parole, and met the devil in a relationship. I thought I found Love, back to prison - 31 to 38 I meet the devil not the person I thought I was in love with, and then was sent back to prison because I was not going to live with a demon. Living around Millionaires and back to prison - 38 to 51 Met a millionaire in prison and lived around millionaires after I was released from prison, and back to prison once again. Living like a Millionaire and finding my Soul mate - 51 to 59 Got out of prison, lived like a millionaire, received a Pardon from the Alabama prison system, found my soul mate but I have to wait for him to get out of prison to marry and live our life.

On a balmy April morning in 1954, James Moore was sworn in as a member of the Toledo Police Academys twelfth cadet class and began what would eventually become a twenty-six-year career with a police force intent on fiercely protecting the citizens of its beloved city. The Naked Badge shares powerful, hard-hitting anecdotes of the realities of Toledo, Ohio, law enforcement that took place from 1950s to the 1970s. With from-the-heart honesty that at times reads like fiction, Moore provides a compelling glimpse into a time when formal training was minimal and outdated; there were no such things as computers, portable radios, bulletproof vests, or air-conditioned vehicles; pay was minimal; and officers worked a forty-eight-hour week. While revealing the stark vulnerabilities of rookie patrolmen, Moore shares real-life cases that disclose his own failures and shortcomings as his career takes him from a patrolman assigned to walking beats in the toughest sections of the city to a veteran captain who prided himself on treating everyone fairly. The Naked Badge offers an enlightening and entertaining look into the intriguing world of police work during a period of great change in America.

Those profiled here -- from Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid to Belle Starr and Doc Holliday -- remain larger than life.

Featuring hundreds of black-and-white illustrations of marksmanship medals, prizes, and badges, plus a special full-color section, this encyclopedia of U.S. Army shooting awards and training program rewards is a must-have for military historians and collectors. In Marksmanship in the U.S. Army, William K. Emerson details weapons training from the 1850s to the present, gathering this information for the first time in a single volume. Emerson highlights the philosophies behind army marksmanship and documents the awards, prizes, and badges bestowed upon the War Department’s most elite shooters, artillerymen, and swordsmen. Proficiency training discussed in this book includes the use of sabers, cannons, sea mines, bayonets, tank weapons, aerial gunnery, bombs, and other weapons. Emerson integrates discussion of the criteria, people, and rationale behind each award into this historical account. Emerson’s emphasis on national rifle and pistol matches, the history of selected army and NRA trophies, and significant players in the army’s weapons training development enhances the comprehensive appeal of the latest contribution to military history by this experienced author.

Over 1,400 total pages ... Instruction Covered: INTRODUCTION TO MARINE CORPS RIFLE MARKSMANSHIP RIFLE WEAPONS HANDLING SERVICE RIFLE/CARBINE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE EFFECTS OF WEATHER RIFLE ZEROING DATA BOOK FUNDAMENTALS OF RIFLE MARKSMANSHIP INTRODUCTION TO RIFLE SHOOTING POSITIONS AND SLINGS RIFLE PRONE POSITION RIFLE SITTING POSITION RIFLE KNEELING POSITION RIFLE STANDING POSITION FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES OF FIRE RIFLE RANGE OPERATIONS RIFLE TABLE 1 COURSE OF FIRE WEAPONS HANDLING EXERCISE WEAPONS HANDLING TEST MCRP 3-01A Rifle Marksmanship ANNUAL RIFLE TRAINING DATABOOK M16A4 SERVICE RIFLE/M4 CARBINE WITH RIFLE COMBAT OPTIC (RCO) AND BACK-UP IRON SIGHT (BUIS) ANNUAL RIFLE TRAINING DATABOOK M16A4 SERVICE RIFLE/M4 CARBINE WITH RIFLE COMBAT OPTIC (RCO) AND BACK-UP IRON SIGHT (BUIS) MARINE CORPS ORDER 3574.2L MARINE CORPS COMBAT MARKSMANSHIP PROGRAMS (MCCMP)