This past Saturday I lost a colleague and friend who was killed while attempting a render safe procedure on a suspicious package at a bank.
Oregon State Police Senior Trooper Bill Hakim is the second bomb tech to fall this year. Our profession is a small fraternity of only 2,000 members. This represents 1/10th of 1% of all police officers in the United States. We get to know each other at the various training classes that we take throughout the county. I met Bill several years ago when he was a team leader at a class I attended in Oregon. He was a friendly, helpful guy who had a passion for this work. He showed me great hospitality and took me out for dinner one night.
Bill and Captain Tom Tennant of the Warburn, Oregon police department were killed when the bomb detonated. Both of these guys were suddenly taken from their wives and children.
Please take time to say a prayer for their families and their comrades who are suffering terribly.
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