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19	Become a Federal Wildland Firefighter. Travel the country. Work hard and push yourself to the point of reaching your limit. Become tougher. Make money.		StrongBodyStrongMind	/r/becomeaman	11/04/15 04:23 PM

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2	Become a Federal Wildland Firefighter. Travel the country. Work hard and push yourself to the point of reaching your limit. Become tougher. Make money. Here are some excerpts from various websites that I found doing a quick google search: YOU THINK YOU ARE TOUGH ENOUGH? Here's one way to find out whether you qualify for work as a wildland firefighter. Stuff what you think you need for a week into a backpack, making sure it weighs at least 50 pounds. If you don't need to carry that much food, add rocks to your pack till it weighs at least that much. Start hiking cross-country, and make sure you're going at a good clip for at least 10 hours per d…	/r/becomeaman	11/04/15 04:24 PM
1	Become a Federal Wildland Firefighter. Travel the country. Work hard and push yourself to the point of reaching your limit. Become tougher. Make money. This is simply my opinion: If you want to serve (and thrive) on a hotshot crew, perhaps become a smokejumper or heli-rappeler, you need to eventually forge yourself - physically and mentally - into an exceptionally strong, tough, and capable being. That being said, let's say you start off on a Type II IA 20-man crew or on a fire engine. By the time you report to your duty station for the first day of your fire season, you should be able to do atleast 60 pushups and 10 strict dead-hang pullups, r…	/r/becomeaman	11/04/15 04:24 PM
1	Become a Federal Wildland Firefighter. Travel the country. Work hard and push yourself to the point of reaching your limit. Become tougher. Make money. If you have no prior fire experience, you will apply for and start off as a GS-3, earning a little over $12 an hour (unless your duty station is within a locality which allows you to receive a pay rate adjustment to offset the cost of living, then it could be much more). Here is the federal government's GS pay scale: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/2014/general-schedule/ When you are not on a fire assignment, you are getting paid your base rate (~$12) x 40 hours…	/r/becomeaman	11/04/15 04:23 PM

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