Call to Duty
 Veteran's Day is a holiday to honor past and present servicemen and women who answered the call to duty in order to protect our freedoms. Whether they deployed overseas during a conflict, or kept guard here at home, they proudly stepped forward to serve their country. Many within the Alaska Department of Public Safety have worn the military uniform either in the past or are now serving, whether it's once a month or during a long deployment overseas in support of a military operation. Here are a few that put their lives on hold, said good-bye to their co-workers and family, and donned a different uniform to go to the far reaches of the world.
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A Trooper's Date with Destiny
Four men with prior law enforcement experience started their careers as Alaska State Troopers yesterday. One of these men is starting his second career wearing trooper blue. After 10 years as a trooper, Eric Olsen's first career was cut short by a terrible car crash while in Kodiak in 2005. He spent seven long years recuperating - first learning how to walk again, and then trying to get to a point where he could rejoin his "brothers and sisters in blue," Olson said. He first returned to the Alaska Department of Public Safety as an investigator for the Alcoholic Beverage and Control Board. However, his heart was set on wearing the uniform again.
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Fur, Fins and Feathers
Even as a commercial fisherman in Kodiak and big game guide in the Alaska Range for eight years, Scott Quist had a strong desire to protect the wildlife resources that his livelihood depended on. This ambition made the jump from resource user to enforcer of wildlife management almost 20 years ago seem like a natural career progression for him. Quist and many of the other almost 100 Alaska Wildlife Troopers statewide have backgrounds as resource users either in commercial fishing, big game guiding, subsistence, sport or personal use fishing and hunting. The Division of Alaska Wildlife Troopers' mission is to protect people living and visiting Alaska and the state's natural resources through wildlife enforcement, education and public participation. It's a task that puts troopers on the front lines of the battle to manage Alaska's wildlife resources.
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