Firefighters Become Stupid When They Make Chief

Now one thing old Buck has seen in his time is some good firefighters. Real good, brave, hard drinking, womanizing firefighters. You can't beat them.

Then a few of them begin to believe they are better than they are and sign up to take the test for Batshit Crazy Shift. The promotion, when it comes, removes about 200 points off of their 125 point IQ.

If the fire is on floor 2 a chief will send people to floor 6 because he has forgotten to think a little bit. Or a lot. Some of them get really stupid and start trying to tell Buck what to do and I lay a size 15 boot in their little white shirted asses.

Hell, some of those boys are chiefs in little towns with a population of under 80,000. What fire do they see? You see them at a damn convention and they are giving classes. On what? They haven't done shit.

Now our chiefs are experienced but they still act stupid. Makes you wonder.