The Possum Cop Chronicles

A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

When I graduated from the Texas Game Warden Academy in April of 1991, I had to get a map to figure out where my assigned duty station was, because in my 24 years of living thus far back then, I had never heard of Willacy County or Raymondville.

I don’t know how the higher-ups made their decisions on where they were gonna send us, but we were given some semblance of input into the process beforehand. Each prospective graduate was given an 8½ x 11 sheet of paper with a map of the State of Texas that showed all 254 counties. We were told to express our preferences regarding duty station assignment however we saw fit.