Peri Duncan

Peri sent us an email. She was just offered a new position at the (FBI) Bureau’s Critical Incident Response Group in the Special Flight Operations/Aviation Surveillance Branch. The position is Investigative Specialist Aviation. She’ll be working surveillances and special missions, both domestic and international, flying in FBI jets: a Cessna Citation X and Cessna 560.

She’ll also assist the Washington Field office with local helicopter surveillances during down times. She’s excited. As an emergency responder, she’ll also be getting her own “G-ride and gas card.” She also just passed her Virginia and National EMT certification as an EMT-Basic, and they are going to pay for her to advance up the scale to paramedic, so she can handle medical issues that could crop up. Also in Virginia, much of their emergency medical services are volunteer-staffed. In Fredericksburg, VA (where she and Derek live), career EMTs only work M-F, 6am to 6pm; the rest of the time volunteers staff the “squad.” She has been driving the rescue squad vehicle (she is also licensed to drive full-sized fire engines/trucks) for the last year. See Peri behind the wheel. She says that driving code 3 is a “RUSH.” (No wonder field units were always anxious to be cleared for it.) Peri is also a certified swiftwater rescue tech on the water rescue team. Now that she has passed her EMT certification and “precepting” (field training), she is now the EMS Attendant-in-charge for the city during her scheduled shifts (one evening a week). Derek is doing very well. He has completed 3 years in middle east assignments (he works for the DEA) and is back at the Academy, training new DEA agents in defensive tactics, practical apps, and PT. Currently they work across the street from each other in Hogan’s Alley. (Her office is in the “Theatre”, and he is in a trailer “village.”) “It is a blessing he came home without a scratch.