Whenever we're moving into a new place or starting a new job, it's unlikely that we'll be briefed on everything we might wish to know about it before we begin.
Although we may get a general rundown of the place and may have some of our more pointed questions answered, there will be some aspect of our new experience that won't become clear until we're already in the trenches. And as we'll soon see, that turned out to be the case for one former officer in the California Highway Patrol.
But while his job involved significantly less enforcement of traffic laws than he expected, it also provided him with enough of an opportunity to develop expertise in handling one of the nation's leading dangers to change the world.