rick, moving away from family and friends is hard at first. A phrase you will read and hear a lot is ‘it isn’t for everyone’. But you will have such shared experiences with the guys and gals you will go through training with and the ones you will work with on the front line that you will find a whole new set of friends. When your work is finished however, you aren’t locked in, so popping back to see the family and your old mates for the weekend is just a question of geography.