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editNaruto Uzumaki [1][2][3][4][5] | |||
(うずまきナルト, Uzumaki Naruto)
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Manga | Chapter #1 | ||
Anime | Naruto Episode #1 | ||
Novel | Kakashi Hiden: Lightning in the Icy Sky | ||
Movie | Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow | ||
Game | Naruto: Clash of Ninja | ||
OVA | Find the Four-Leaf Red Clover! | ||
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Birthdate | October 10 | ||
Gender | Male | ||
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Blood type | B | ||
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Tailed Beast | Shukaku, Matatabi, Isobu, Son Gokū, Kokuō, Saiken, Chōmei, Gyūki, Kurama (Forms) | ||
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Ninja Registration | 012607 | ||
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Naruto Uzumaki (うずまきナルト, Uzumaki Naruto) is a shinobi of Konohagakure. He became the jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails on the day of his birth, a fate that caused him to be ostracised and neglected by most of Konoha throughout his childhood. After joining Team Kakashi, Naruto worked hard to gain the village's respect and acknowledgement with the eventual dream of becoming Hokage. In the following years, he became a capable ninja regarded as a hero, both by the villagers and the shinobi world at large. He soon proved to be the main factor in winning the Fourth Shinobi World War, leading him to achieve his dream and become the Seventh Hokage (七代目火影, Nanadaime Hokage, Literally meaning: Seventh Fire Shadow).
[show]Background Edit
Born to the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze and the second jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails, Kushina Uzumaki, Naruto is the first of Asura Ōtsutsuki's reincarnations to be born into the era of relative peace. He was named after the protagonist of Jiraiya's first book, thereby making the Sannin his godfather.[12] Prior to Naruto's birth, his parents and the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, feared that the stress of giving birth would compromise the seal which kept the Nine-Tails contained within Kushina. As a precaution, Kushina was taken to a top-secret location outside the village with Biwako Sarutobi and Taji as her midwives, and guarded by Anbu and Minato to keep the seal in place. Through unknown means, a masked ninja who intended to take the fox for his own evil ends uncovered their plans. After killing the midwives and Anbu, the masked man took the newborn Naruto hostage as a means of separating Minato from Kushina in order to release the Nine-Tails.[13]
Minato quickly sprung into action, however, by the time he secured Naruto at a safer location, the masked man had succeeded in releasing the Nine-Tails and used it to devastate Konoha. Minato managed to save Kushina and left Naruto in her care before he went to protect the village.[13] After having severed the masked ninja's control over the tailed beast, Minato realised the only way to stop the Nine-Tails was to seal it within Naruto, believing that his son would someday have need of the fox's power to defeat the masked ninja when he returned.[14] However, the Nine-Tails' chakra was too immense for the seal to hold, and thus Minato was forced to sacrifice his soul in order to first weaken the fox by splitting its Yin and Yang chakra amongst himself and his son before succumbing to his wounds alongside Kushina after taking a fatal blow from the fox meant for their son. Suddenly orphaned, Naruto was left to grow up knowing nothing of his parents, receiving only his mother's last name as Hiruzen believed it was best that nobody knew that he was related to the Fourth Hokage.[15]
Despite Minato's dying wish to see his son heralded as a hero, only the Third Hokage and a small number of the villagers could put their pain of loss aside and honour this request. The majority of Konoha, consumed with bitterness over the lives lost and destruction in the wake of the Nine-Tails' attack, resented Naruto for it, unable to separate the beast from the boy, and with some even seeing him as the fox itself. In the interest of protecting Naruto and in the hope that the younger generations would not emulate this position, Hiruzen passed a decree of secrecy that strictly prohibited the adults from divulging Naruto's status as a jinchūriki. This policy was not entirely effective, as many of Naruto's peers followed their parent's example and shunned him.[16] The social isolation would cause Naruto to develop a need to be acknowledged through mischief.
On a snowy day in March, while preparing to enrol at the Academy, Naruto first met Hinata Hyūga, who was being degraded by a group of three bullies. Despite not knowing her, Naruto refused to let the bullies insult Hinata and came to her defence, but was outnumbered and easily beaten, with his red scarf trampled over by them. After Hinata genuinely thanked Naruto for his efforts, he let her keep the scarf since it was ruined, unaware that was when the young Hyūga girl's affections began for him.[17]
In the anime, one day, he was confronted by Sakura Haruno, Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Chōji Akimichi. They accused him of making someone named Yota, who was a stranger to the village, disappear. Seeing them look at him with such distrust like the rest of the village, Naruto grew furious and ran away, so angry that people would like even an outsider over him. He then heard a young boy crying who strangely appeared to control the weather, making it rain with his tears. Naruto then realised this boy must be Yota. Immediately taking a liking to Naruto, the young boy asked him to teach him how to whistle like he saw Naruto do earlier. As Naruto began teaching him, the two soon became close friends. Later, Naruto and Yota began playing along with other the Konoha children that knew about Yota. One day, while playing a game of hiding, Yota insisted to hide with Naruto. When Naruto told him to hide somewhere else, Yota mistakenly thought Naruto didn't like him any more and ran away crying. His crying caused another rain-shower, which alerted the Anbu. As they took Yota captive, Naruto and the others tried to stop the Anbu, but to no success.[18]
Determined to save his first ever friend, Naruto and the others staged a plan with Naruto acting as a diversion. Despite finding Yota, the Anbu easily foiled their plan. Naruto quickly joined his friends, refusing to let Yota be kept prisoner. Seeing how much Naruto cared for him and then got struck down by the Anbu, Yota summoned bolts of lightning to knock the Anbu out. Greatly weakened by the act, Naruto carried Yota out of the village with the others, determined to bring him to freedom. Upon reaching a river, unable to walk over it yet, they chose to swim. Their attempts proved futile and nearly drowned, only to be saved by Yota. Having overtaxed himself, Yota felt his life fading. Happy to have had friends, Yota didn't want them to suffer with this sad memory and erased all knowledge of him from their minds.[19]
Naruto eventually became the student of Iruka Umino and met his class mate Sasuke Uchiha when the two were paired to spar against each other. Though excited at the chance to achieve popularity by beating Sasuke, Naruto was easily beaten. By looking at Sasuke's eyes, Naruto realised that they were filled with hatred, even though it wasn't directed at him. When Iruka told them to make the reconciliation seal, they both refused.[20] Since then, Naruto came to see Sasuke as a rival and intended to beat him. When he found out that Sasuke was also an orphan, he was secretly happy for not being the only one alone and wanted to talk to him, but couldn't because of his jealousy toward Sasuke's skills.[21] Still, Naruto wished that someday, Sasuke would acknowledge him as an equal.[22] Despite this, when Naruto and Sasuke traded glance when they were kids, they immediately looked away in annoyance but secretly smiled shortly afterwards, meaning Sasuke actually considered Naruto a friend somewhere deep down.
In the anime, when Naruto pulled a prank on a group of boys for not being invited to their "test of courage", he refused to return to the Academy after being glared at by Iruka with the same resentful stare everyone else gives him. Later, Naruto was tricked by the boys' leader, Hibachi, to get himself killed by enemy ninja in the hills. Learning of this, Iruka ended up saving Naruto from a trio of Takigakure kunoichi before Kakashi Hatake dispatched their pursuers. Soon after, Naruto began attending class again at the time that Iruka, who now acted as a surrogate brother to keep the boy in line, gave a lecture on the Will of Fire that inspired Naruto to become the next Hokage someday to achieve the acknowledgement he is striving for.[23] Apart from Hiruzen and Iruka, Naruto also found a surrogate family with the owner of Ramen Ichiraku, Teuchi and his daughter Ayame to some extent.
Personality Edit
Naruto is a boisterous and exuberant individual. He would end sentences with "Dattebayo!" (だってばよ!) when excited or frustrated. He has a number of childish traits, such as being a very picky eater (he almost exclusively eats ramen), being afraid of ghosts, and carries a chubby green-frog wallet which he calls "Gama-chan".[24] Naruto is heedless to formality or social standings and has a habit of giving people he meets nicknames or addressing them without appropriate honourifics, as shown when he offended the Second Hokage by not calling him "Lord Second" (二代目様, Nidaime-sama). He can also be quite perverted, creating different forms of his Sexy Technique and once tried to sneak a peek in the women's bath when the opportunity presented itself.[25] Despite these quirks, Naruto is said to have a personality that brings people to him, inspiring friendship and loyalty from most of the people he meets through acts of genuine kindness and sincerity that could change a person's entire world view. For example, during the Fourth Shinobi World War, Naruto's kindness inspired loyalty from the tailed beasts, and when linked to the entire Shinobi Alliance through telepathy, he reignited the demoralised armies' fighting spirit, choosing to continue fighting despite the losses he could receive, as shinobi were meant to endure through hardships.[26][27]
Years of isolation and scorn from the villagers made Naruto thirst for acknowledgement. He would pull pranks around the village just to get a response from anyone and his desire to be Hokage was in hopes of being someone that mattered. Naruto's time at the Falls of Truth revealed that a part of him hated the villagers for treating him as a pariah, only to turn to him after he saved them during Pain's assault on Konoha. This hatred allowed the Nine-Tails to manipulate Naruto in his rage, causing him to go on a rampage several times until Naruto confronted the problem and learned to let it go. As he grew in his career as a ninja, his goal to be Hokage went from a desire for acknowledgement to a desire to help and protect the people close to him, which Tobi attributed to the Will of Fire.[28] Naruto developed his nindō of never going back on his word, putting himself through any lengths required to keeping his promise. This was especially shown in Naruto's promise to Sakura to bring Sasuke back after his defection from Konoha, despite Sakura herself having grown to see this as impossible due to Sasuke becoming a dangerous international criminal later on as well as the pain it was causing him.
According to Kakashi, Naruto is a kinesthetic learner, as he is relatively naive, simple, and slow to understand principle or situations, often requiring an oversimplified analogy in order to grasp what is being explained to him.[29] He has grown more willing to admit this over time, even to Hinata and Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, and possibly puts up a strong front so people wouldn't know about his embarrassment and frustration at his own ineptitude, despite all of his accomplishments so far.[30][31][32] Naruto responds best to competition, using it as an additional drive learn new techniques, though he doesn't hesitate to ask for help if he needs it. Despite his naivety, Naruto can be quite observant, picking up on things others miss and retaining information casually gathered through conversation.[33] In battle, Naruto has shown to be calm and collected most of the times, but can get frustrated when he is unable to defeat his opponent. He can also be a quick thinker, making up strategies on the fly or inventive use of his techniques to catch his opponents off guard during the battle. However, he can get overexcited and forget some concepts or weaknesses that he himself noted beforehand.[34]
The death of his master Jiraiya and Pain's assault on Konoha caused a large world shift for Naruto. Grieving for Jiraiya, Naruto swore vengeance on Pain and left the village to learn senjutsu.[35] While training, Naruto read a copy of The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi, which taught him that he was named after a hero from the book. Although further enraged by Pain's actions during the invasion, Naruto soon spoke with his father, who explained to him the cycle of hatred of the shinobi world. After finally listening to Nagato's story and the results of the cycle of hatred, Naruto vowed he would break the cycle and bring real peace to the world.[36] Despite this desire bringing him in direct opposition to Sasuke and the rest of Akatsuki, Naruto continued down this path, resolving to end both the Fourth Shinobi World War and the cycle of hatred.
After realising his love for Hinata, Naruto became not only protective of her but also shy and flustered in her presence to the point where he accidentally told her how he felt, and eventually proposed to her after saving her from Toneri Ōtsutsuki. After getting married and having two children with her, he would often interrupt his own training to play with her, Boruto and Himawari.[17] In adulthood, Naruto has become much wiser. When Boruto defaced the Hokage Monument, Naruto knew that his son just wanted his attention since they didn't have as much personal time as they used to before Naruto became Hokage. Despite reprimanding Boruto for his behaviour and knowing he would be late for the Five Kage Summit, Naruto spent some time with his son to inspire him to endure any hardship as a true shinobi would, proving himself to be a loving father.[11] Eventually, Naruto reached a compromise by using his shadow clones to play hide-and-seek with Boruto, with the condition that he can't use Sage Mode since that'd make the game too easy, which also helped with his son's training. Thus, he was able to spend time with his son and continue to work as Hokage without interruptions. Although he tends to not know how far to hold himself back as he nearly used a Multiple Shadow Clone Technique against Boruto in response to him using a shadow clone as well, only for Sai to point out that's a little too far.[37]
Relationships Edit
Main article: Naruto Uzumaki's Relationships Due to his friendly nature, tenacity, empathy, and unique charisma, Naruto has built many relationships over the course of the series that have defined him and others.
Appearance Edit
As stated by Jiraiya, Naruto bears a striking resemblance to his father, having Minato's blue eyes and blond, spiky hair.[38] From his mother, Naruto inherited the shape of both her eyes and face.[39] During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Dan Katō initially mistakes him for Nawaki due to their stark resemblance as well.[40] Naruto's most prominent physical characteristics, however, are the three whisker markings on his cheeks. His most regularly mentioned trait before the second half of the series (which easily provoked him) was his short stature for his age.[41] After the time skip, he had a noticeably significant growth spurt which made him taller than his team-mate, Sakura.[42] By the end of the Fourth Shinobi World War, Naruto had grown to be nearly his father's height, and two years after was among the tallest of his generation. By the time of the epilogue, Naruto's height was a full head over his wife, Hinata.
In Part I, Naruto's outfit consisted of an orange tracksuit with blue on the upper shoulders area as well as around the waist, a white swirl with a tassel on the left side, a red Uzumaki swirl crest on the back, a large white collar, orange pants with a shuriken holster attached to his right knee (due to being right-handed), blue sandals, and a blue forehead protector that was given to him by Iruka after he graduated from the Academy. Naruto would usually wear a black T-shirt inside his tracksuit, but sometimes wore armour underneath his clothing.[43] During his early childhood, Naruto would usually wear a T-shirt (white, navy green or black) that had either an Uzumaki or fire symbol on the front, also wearing a pair of shorts. He also donned green goggles with "Naruto" written on them that he wore on his forehead sometimes, though he eventually stopped wearing it and replaced it with his forehead protector.
In Part II, Naruto's outfit underwent modification after the original was worn to shreds during his training with Jiraiya.[44] The outfit retained the orange colour as well as the white (without the tassel) and red swirls, but the jacket was much more form fitting with the blue parts changed to black and the colour extending from around the neck and shoulders, down the front and sleeves. The metal portion of his forehead protector had moved to a longer black bandanna, and he wore black sandals instead of blue. Naruto occasionally was seen wearing a navy green T-shirt with a fire symbol and white shorts on casual days or his off-duty days from missions. During his battle with Pain, Naruto briefly sported a short-sleeved red coat with a black flame pattern along the hemline and carried a large summoning scroll on his back; the coat was destroyed following his transformation into his six-tailed Version 2 form. After meeting Hagoromo's spirit and receiving his chakra and therefore the Six Paths Sage Mode, Naruto also obtained a light sun-like mark on his right palm, which vanished after Kaguya's sealing. After his final clash with Sasuke following Kaguya's defeat, Naruto lost his right forearm. Sometime after the war ended, Tsunade constructed a fully manoeuvreable prosthetic forearm for Naruto made of Hashirama Senju's cells, wrapped completely in bandages.
Two years after the Fourth Shinobi World War, Naruto grew taller again with his hair cropped short and moved the metal portion of his forehead protector to a simple black elastic headband. He wears a black uniform-style jacket with an orange zipper that features several buttons on the waist and sleeves, allowing him to fold up the left sleeve and rear coattails, giving him easy access to the pouches on the back of his belt. He wears a red armband with an Uzumaki crest on his left arm. While off-duty, Naruto wears an orange hooded sweatshirt and black and orange shorts with sandals. He initially wore a teal and light blue striped scarf that was knitted by his mother, but later took it off when he found out Hinata was knitting a long red scarf for him. When he and Hinata married, Naruto was wearing a traditional black wedding kimono.
After becoming Hokage, Naruto stops wearing a headband altogether. He now wears an orange sweatshirt with black stripes, along with black pants and sandals. Along with the traditional Hokage headpiece, he also dons a white cape decorated with red flame-like motifs on the edges, with the kanji for "Seventh Hokage" (七代目火影, Nanadaime Hokage) written vertically down the back, and held together by a red rope, similar to the one worn by his father.
Abilities Edit
Despite his initially poor performance in the Academy, Naruto pushed past this stumbling block as a late bloomer through sheer willpower and perseverance. His rapid growth during Part I enabled him to fight on par with noteworthy prodigious and skilled shinobi, as well as master various difficult and high-level techniques. Several highly skilled shinobi, such as the legendary Sannin, have noted Naruto's great potential.[45] Naruto's two-and-a-half years of training with Jiraiya had further increased his abilities to match the S-rank members of Akatsuki, up to defeating their leader, Pain, being consequently praised as a hero worthy of becoming Hokage.[46] During the Fourth Shinobi World War, his unique skill set allowed him to effectively battle several Kage-level shinobi.[47][48][49] After receiving the Six Paths Chakra, Naruto could overwhelm Madara Uchiha as the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki, hold his own against Kaguya Ōtsutsuki (the progenitor of chakra), and defeat Sasuke in their final battle despite holding back and being exhausted.[50][51][52] By war's end, Naruto has been acknowledged by others to have surpassed his teachers, Kakashi and Jiraiya, and even the previous Hokage.[53] Two years after the war, he became a world-famous hero whose improved prowess allowed him to single-handedly defeat Toneri Ōtsutsuki, a wielder of the Tenseigan.[17] Years later, Naruto's abilities continued to develop until he eventually succeeded Kakashi as the Seventh Hokage.[11]
Chakra Prowess and Life Force Edit
Naturally, Naruto alone possesses a massive amount of potent chakra, which is estimated to be at least four times greater than Kakashi's.[54] Naruto's chakra colour is yellow and its quality was described by Karin to be "bright and warm".[55] Early in his shinobi career, Naruto had very little chakra control, causing him to waste more chakra than necessary, but his natural reserves made up for this flaw.[56] Over time, once this issue was pointed out to him, he learned greater chakra control, allowing him to not waste chakra unnecessarily.
Due to his Uzumaki lineage, Naruto has a much greater longevity than most humans, along with a considerably strong life force and physical energy. From this, he could survive the extraction of a tailed beast (albeit he was rendered unconscious and in a critical state).[57] He is also known for his greatly accelerated healing, which has been attributed to Kurama.[58] His lineage was part of the reason why he was able to synchronise with Kurama's chakra.[59] Part of his chakra prowess and physical energy stems from being a reincarnation of his ancestor, Asura.[32] Naruto's healing ability was further heightened after receiving a prosthetic forearm made from Hashirama's cells.
When Naruto was taught the principles of transferring chakra, he was able to mould the transferred chakra in order to adapt it to another person's specific chakra type.[60] His chakra levels also became so high and potent, he was able to share his chakra with the entire Shinobi Alliance; chakra that was stated to be more of his own than Kurama's[61][62] and strong enough that it could be felt as far away as Konoha despite the battlefield being countries away. After gaining some of Hagoromo's and the other tailed beasts' chakra, his reserves increased even further.
Jinchūriki Transformations Edit
Main articles: Jinchūriki Forms and Nine-Tails Chakra Mode
Combined with his already massive chakra reserves, being the jinchūriki of Kurama's Yang half gives Naruto a reserve a hundred times greater than Kakashi's.[54] Due to his Uzumaki lineage and being Kurama's jinchūriki his entire life, Naruto's chakra was more effectively mixed with the fox's.[63] Because of this, Naruto can perform very chakra-taxing techniques in quick succession without feeling fatigued. When tapping into Kurama's chakra, Naruto gains enhanced speed, strength and healing. Later, Naruto gained some of the other tailed beasts' chakra. This combined with both Yin and Yang-Kurama sealed into him and restored as one being increased Naruto's chakra strength and reserves even more.
At first, Naruto could only access Kurama's power when he was enraged or his life was in danger, but after training, he learned how to access the chakra by consciously requesting the fox for help. However, while Naruto was able to utilise Version 1 transformations, he only had the briefest of control of his own actions. If he fell deeper into a rage, Naruto could slip into Version 2, losing himself to Kurama's negative influence and going berserk, requiring outside help to suppress the fox's chakra.[64] Because of these drawbacks, Naruto wouldn't make use of Kurama's chakra until he was given the means of controlling the chakra completely.
After his close victory against Pain, Naruto realised he could no longer avoid using the Nine-Tails' power and sought Killer B, the jinchūriki of Gyūki, to learn how to control it. With his mother and B's help, Naruto was able to separate and take most of the Nine-Tails' chakra, giving him access to Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, which massively increases his speed, strength, and defences. As conquering the Nine-Tails was not the same as cooperating with it, Naruto at the time couldn't use the complete output of the fox's power and had to exercise extreme caution when using Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, as it could cost him his life.
Eventually, realising its own respect for Naruto after all he had endured in his life and the type of person he has become, Kurama decides to accept his friendship. With this new unity, Kurama freely gives Naruto its chakra and access to Tailed Beast Mode, which was yet another increase in speed, strength, durability, and the ability to create Tailed Beast Balls. Unlike other Tailed Beast Modes, Naruto's form is transparent, allowing others to enter the chakra shroud and grant them some of Naruto's power while inside of it.[65] He can still access his previous forms, as shown when he entered Version 1 to deflect Amaterasu.[66] He can also use Kurama's chakra to revatilise the life forces of others.[67][68] Should the need arise, Kurama can transfer to Naruto chakra that is limited and usable to him alone, even if the chakra was instead absorbed.[69]
Two years after the Fourth Shinobi World War, and with Kurama's power complete, Naruto became capable of channelling all of his transformation's power into a single part of his body. With this, he could remove Toneri's Puppet-Cursing Sphere from Hinata's body, overpower Toneri's Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, and knock the latter in his Tenseigan Chakra Mode a considerable distance away with a single punch, depowering and defeating him. Naruto has even demonstrated the ability to manifest both his Tailed Beast Mode and Kurama's physical body outside of his own body, allowing the two to fight independently.
The portions of chakra that Naruto received from the other eight tailed beasts allow him to not only console with them, but also to utilise their unique skills to produce various powerful techniques, despite not truly being sealed within him. Naruto can access Shukaku's Magnet Release, along with its natural curse seal formula and the ability to manifest and control sand, Matatabi's blue Fire Release, Isobu's Water Release, Son Gokū's Lava Release, Kokuō's Boil Release, Saiken's caustic capabilities, and Gyūki's ink creation. With the aid of shadow clones, Naruto can use all of these abilities at once.
Ninjutsu Edit
Naruto's initial mediocre chakra control left him barely able to perform basic techniques, which caused him to fail three times in the Academy. The only technique he could use successfully at the time was the Sexy Technique; an inventive, but presumably useless diversionary technique. Over time, with his chakra control steadily improving, Naruto's arsenal expanded with it. Under his training with Jiraiya, Naruto continued to rapidly improve his skills, mastering various advanced techniques and forms to expand his repertoire, eventually surpassing Kakashi in sheer ninjutsu prowess.[70][71] Once meeting Hagoromo and gained some of his power, as well as the chakra of all the other tailed beasts, Naruto gained access to a large array of new and unique abilities.
Shadow Clone Technique Edit
Naruto's first trademark in battle is the Shadow Clone Technique. Whereas most ninja must be careful with this technique as to not deplete their chakra reserves, Naruto's immense reserves can handle creating thousands of clones and retain a decent amount of chakra in each of them.[72] This lets him overwhelm opponents with sheer numbers or carry out multiple tasks at once. Upon receiving Hagoromo's power, Naruto's clones are able to fly and equally combat Madara's corporeal shadows. They're also capable of performing his Tailed Beast Mode to form clones of Kurama's chakra replica.
While originally relying on his shadow clones only for overwhelming numbers in battle, Naruto came to be more tactical with them during Part II, overall making him waste less chakra in battle. As seen in his second bell test, he could use his shadow clones to manoeuvre him in mid-air and transform them into weapons to conserve his normal supply. After learning that all knowledge and experiences shadow clones gain will be transferred back to the user once they disperse, Naruto would frequently employ this to complete years' worth of training in days. He can also use shadow clones to scout an area or test an opponent's abilities in combat.[73] Kakashi noted that Naruto's great mastery of the technique far exceeds his own and even Minato's, as only Naruto can apply shadow clones to catalyse the learning, usage, and mastery of complex techniques.[74]
Summoning Technique Edit
To encourage improved control over the Nine-Tails' chakra, Jiraiya taught Naruto the Summoning Technique. By offering a certain amount of chakra, Naruto can summon the toads of Mount Myōboku as allies. He was initially restricted to tadpoles and small toads such as then-young Gamakichi or Gamatatsu due to his poor chakra control. During Part I, he could only summon larger toads when accessing the Nine-Tails' chakra, but by Part II, Naruto's skills with the Summoning Technique improved as he becomes capable of summoning Gamabunta and the likes whenever he desired. He can also use the Summoning: Food Cart Destroyer Technique to summon giant toads above his targets, thereby crushing them.
Rasengan Edit
Naruto's second trademark technique is the Rasengan, which was created by his father. Originally, because of the very intricate chakra control the Rasengan requires, Naruto struggled to learn it. Although the Rasengan is intended as a one-handed technique, Naruto made up for his poor control by incorporating the assistance of a shadow clone: he provides the chakra while the clone forms it into the spherical shape. Since acquiring the Rasengan, Naruto began expanding on its nature to create stronger variations of it such as the Big Ball Rasengan. As his skill with the Rasengan improved, the amount of time he needed to prepare it decreased. To make up for the need for shadow clones, Naruto steadily increases the number Rasengan he uses at a time, with feats like having the shadow clones make their own Rasengan to bombard the target with. By the end of the Fourth Shinobi World War, Naruto's chakra control and mastery over the Rasengan has improved to the point where he could form a Rasengan and its variants without the need of any transformations or shadow clones, with his regular Rasengan expanding to the size of a Big Ball Rasengan.[75][76][77]
Through the usage of Sage Mode or Kurama's chakra, Naruto can create more powerful and elaborate variations of the Rasengan. Also towards the latter, since the Rasengan was conceptually based on the Tailed Beast Ball, Naruto takes it further by creating the Super Mini-Tailed Beast Ball.


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Small/Medium: Label says these fit a range from 4'11" to 5'7" or 100 to 140 lbs.Our more petite testers found they weren't too loose on the ankles. If you've got curves and height, then you might want to go a size up as the label's top height/weight combo for this size is 5'3", 140lbs.
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Any way we can get the old style back? These are too dark and too small. Or is there a replacement you would recommend for paperwhite, 6' tall and 280 pound woman?
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Congrats on double digits.
Do you get disappointed when you snagged a practice ball rather than an official ball? I notice you snagged four.
That ball on the bottom right is beautiful! It looks like it rolled through a puddle of melted green crayons.
Hey! Double digits is an impressive feat for anyone in any stadium! Congratulations, dude. That stadium looks like a great place to run around and chase baseballs. Hopefully I'll get out to DC someday…
I was expecting the training balls from the Nationals. I really didn't mind. I was more excited to get those first few balls out of the way. My goal for the day was 6 – to get to 300 – so I didn't think twice at the time if it was a training ball or not. I know a lot of people absolutely hate these balls though.
That last ball was ball #11 that I glove tricked from the gap. It must've picked up that paint off of the back wall. You're right though, it does look nice – I like getting unique balls like that.
Thanks a lot. Nationals Park is a great park to ballhawk in. I'm lucky enough to have a few great ones within four hours or less for ballhawking: Camden, Nationals, Progressive and PNC (for the first 30 min of STH time)
Security wouldve given you a warning before they took the glove away.
And in the picture of ball 11, there was probably another ball under the wood, after i botched the glove trick in the same spot ( i had already been warned about using it, so i brought my glove up too fast and it hit the bars on the left side of the pic, and the ball fell out, and bounced under the wood)
Good job though, but im surprised you couldnt get anything during the game.


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1. Scope
1.1 This specification covers seamless, straight-seam welded, and heavily cold worked welded austenitic stainless steel pipe intended for high-temperature and general corrosive service.
Note 1—When the impact test criterion for a low-temperature service would be 15 ftlbf [20 J] energy absorption or 15 mils [0.38 mm] lateral expansion, some of the austenitic stainless steel grades covered by this specification are accepted by certain pressure vessel or piping codes without the necessity of making the actual test. For example, Grades TP304, TP304L, and TP347 are accepted by the ASME Pressure Vessel Code, Section VIII Division 1, and by the Chemical Plant and Refinery Piping Code, ANSI B31.3, for service at temperatures as low as -425 °F [-250 °C] without qualification by impact tests. Other AISI stainless steel grades are usually accepted for service temperatures as low as -325 °F [-200 °C] without impact testing. Impact testing may, under certain circumstances, be required. For example, materials with chromium or nickel content outside the AISI ranges, and for material with carbon content exceeding 0.10 %, are required to be impact tested under the rules of ASME Section VIII Division 1 when service temperatures are lower than -50 °F [-45 °C].
1.2 Grades TP304H, TP309H, TP309HCb, TP310H, TP310HCb, TP316H, TP321H, TP347H, and TP348H are modifications of Grades TP304, TP309Cb, TP309S, TP310Cb, TP310S, TP316, TP321, TP347, and TP348, and are intended for service at temperatures where creep and stress rupture properties are important.
1.3 Optional supplementary requirements are provided for pipe where a greater degree of testing is desired. These supplementary requirements call for additional tests to be made and, when desired, it is permitted to specify in the order one or more of these supplementary requirements.
1.4 lists the standardized dimensions of welded and seamless stainless steel pipe as shown in ANSI B36.19. These dimensions are also applicable to heavily cold worked pipe. Pipe having other dimensions is permitted to be ordered and furnished provided such pipe complies with all other requirements of this specification.
1.5 Grades TP321 and TP321H have lower strength requirements for pipe manufactured by the seamless process in nominal wall thicknesses greater than 3/8 in. [9.5 mm].
1.6 The values stated in either inch-pound units or SI units are to be regarded separately as standard. Within the text, the SI units are shown in brackets. The values stated in each system are not exact equivalents; therefore, each system must be used independently of the other. Combining values from the two systems may result in nonconformance with the specification. The inch-pound units shall apply unless the "M" designation of this specification is specified in the order.
Note 2—The dimensionless designator NPS (nominal pipe size) has been substituted in this standard for such traditional terms as "nominal diameter," "size," and "nominal size."
2. Referenced Documents (purchase separately) The documents listed below are referenced within the subject standard but are not provided as part of the standard.
ANSI Standards
B1.20.1 Pipe Threads, General Purpose B36.10 Welded and Seamless Wrought Steel Pipe B36.19 Stainless Steel PipeASTM Standards
A262 Practices for Detecting Susceptibility to Intergranular Attack in Austenitic Stainless Steels
A370 Test Methods and Definitions for Mechanical Testing of Steel Products
A941 Terminology Relating to Steel, Stainless Steel, Related Alloys, and Ferroalloys
A999/A999M Specification for General Requirements for Alloy and Stainless Steel Pipe
A1016/A1016M Specification for General Requirements for Ferritic Alloy Steel, Austenitic Alloy Steel, and Stainless Steel Tubes
E112 Test Methods for Determining Average Grain Size
E381 Method of Macroetch Testing Steel Bars, Billets, Blooms, and Forgings
E527 Practice for Numbering Metals and Alloys in the Unified Numbering System (UNS)
ASME Standard
ASMEBoilerandPressur : Section VIII Available from American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), ASME International Headquarters, Two Park Ave., New York, NY 10016-5990, http://www.asme.org.AWS Standard
A5.9 Corrosion-Resisting Chromium and Chromium-Nickel Steel Welding Rods and Electrodes Available from American Welding Society (AWS), 550 NW LeJeune Rd., Miami, FL 33126, http://www.aws.org.Other Standard
SAEJ1086 Practice for Numbering Metals and Alloys (UNS) Available from Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), 400 Commonwealth Dr., Warrendale, PA 15096-0001, http://www.sae.org.ICS Code
ICS Number Code 23.040.10 (Iron and steel pipes)
UNSPSC Code
UNSPSC Code 40171621(Industrial welded stainless steel pipe); 40171622(Industrial seamless stainless steel pipe)
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Citation Format
ASTM A312 / A312M-06, Standard Specification for Seamless, Welded, and Heavily Cold Worked Austenitic Stainless Steel Pipes, ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, 2006, www.astm.org
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Waterstone 5600-ORB Black Oil Rubbed Bronze Annapolis Kitchen Faucet Single Handle with Pull Out Spray
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ADA | Yes |
Country Of Origin | USA |
Diameter | 2.375 |
Drain Assembly Included | No |
Eco Friendly | Yes |
Escutcheon Included | No |
Faucet Centers | 0 |
Faucet Holes | 1 |
Faucet Type | Kitchen Faucet |
Filtering | No |
Flow Rate (GPM) | 1.75 |
Handle Material | Metal |
Handle Style | Lever |
Handles Included | Yes |
Height | 18 |
Installation Type | Deck Mounted |
Low Lead Compliant | Yes |
Made in America | Yes |
Material | Brass |
Max Deck Thickness | 2.375 |
Number Of Handles | 1 |
Pre Rinse | No |
Pullout Direction | Down |
Pullout Spray | Yes |
Sidespray | No |
Soap Dispenser Included | No |
Spout Height | 18, 8 |
Spout Reach | 8.75 |
Spout Swivel | 360 |
Spout Type | Swivel |
Theme | Traditional |
Valve Type | Ceramic Disc |
Water Efficient | Yes |
Width | 3, 4.188 |
American Made Luxury Kitchen Faucets by Waterstone
The Annapolis faucet suite has a beautifully detailed design that evokes an old world feel. Its classic styling is perfectly suited for today's high-end kitchens. This collection features a wide range of traditional designs including hook spout faucets, gooseneck pull down faucets, and the patented Gantry pull down faucet. There are 30 different finishes to choose from, along with matching Bar, Prep, and Filtration Faucets, plus 6 accessories. Make your kitchen truly unique with an Annapolis kitchen faucet from Waterstone.
All Waterstone faucets are built in the USA using 100% American components and materials.
Waterstone 5600 Features:
- Designed, Engineered and Made in the USA
- Water Efficient
- Solid Brass or Stainless Steel Construction
- Compatible with Reverse Osmosis Filtration Systems
- Traditional C-Spout Design
- Unique PLP Positive Lock Holds Spray Head in Place
- Pre-Positioned Easy Pull Counterbalanced Weight
- Lever Selects Spray from Aerated Stream
- Single Lever Control Hot/Cold Ceramic Disk Valve Cartridge
- Handle Adjusts 22 Degrees (Right or Left) to Allow for Clearance from Backsplashes
- 3 Handle Caps Included: Plain and Ceramic Right Hand or Left Hand Operation Indicated for Hot and Cold
- Factory Installed Reinforced Braided Connection Hoses
- Adjustable Teflon Friction Lock Aids Handle Feel and Prevents Sag
- 360 Degree Swivel Spout
- Quick Snug and Lock Attachment Hardware is Included for Ease of Installation
- Neoperl Aerator
- Recommended Installation Hole Size 1-1/2"
- Supply Hoses 20" Long with 3/8" Compression Fittings
- Spray Connection with 3/8" Compression Fittings
- California AB-1953 Low Lead Compliant
- ADA Compliant
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- Overall Height: 18"
- Spout Height: 8"
- Spout Reach: 8.75"
- Width: 3"
- Flow Rate: 1.75 GPM with Stream Selected
- Max Deck Thickness: 2.375"
Antique Bronze, Black Oil Rubbed Bronze, Caribbean Bronze, Tuscan Brass, Weathered Brass, and Weathered Copper are LIVING FINISHES. Generally, finishes darken slightly where they are not being touched and highlight where the high use points are. Living finishes have no protective coatings and are more easily scratched or scuffed.
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Our SKU: 5600
This product is listed under the following manufacturer number(s):
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5600-01 - American Bronze
5600-AMB - Antique Brass
5600-AB - Antique Bronze
5600-ABZ - Antique Copper
5600-AC - Antique Pewter
5600-AP - Bisquit
5600-07 - Black Oil Rubbed Bronze
5600-ORB - Caribbean Bronze
5600-CB - Chocolate Bronze
5600-CHB - Chrome
5600-CH - Distressed American Bronze
5600-DAMB - Distressed Antique Brass
5600-DAB - Distressed Antique Copper
5600-DAC - Distressed Antique Pewter
5600-DAP - Euro-White
5600-EW - Gloss Black
5600-06 - Matte Black
5600-MB - Polished Brass
5600-PB - Polished Copper
5600-PC - Polished Nickel
5600-PN - Satin Chrome
5600-SC - Satin Nickel
5600-SN - Tuscan Brass
5600-TB - Venetian Bronze
5600-VB - Weathered Brass
5600-WB - Weathered Copper
5600-WC - White
*Denotes a finish or option that has been discontinued
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The Waterstone 5600 living finish means that the finish is supposed to change over time to look more and more aged.
What is considered a living finish?
The Waterstone 5600 living finish means that the finish is supposed to change over time to look more and more aged.
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John DiStaso's Granite Status: Dark-horse emerges as potential front-runner for new NHGOP exec director
We'll get an idea Saturday at 10 a.m. when the Republican State Committee gathers for its annual meeting at Bedford High School and elects a new chairman to succeed outgoing Wayne MacDonald.
In case you've been on another planet lately, the choice is between activists Jennifer Horn and Andrew Hemingway.
How many of the 506 committee members will show?
Two years ago, after huge GOP wins in mid-term elections, there was a strong turnout when 421 voted between Jack Kimball and Julianna Bergeron. Kimball took the chair, 222 to 199.
This year, the stakes are just as high, if not higher.
Once dominant in New Hampshire, the GOP has fallen on tough times and the split between establishment and the Tea Party/liberty movement, which surfaced two years ago, continues.
Can Horn or Hemingway be a unifier?
These days, the NHGOP is running a distant second, organizationally, to the state Democratic Party. The next chairman has a lot of catching up to do.
It wasn't that way a while ago.
After the last GOP crash, the election of 2008, the party quickly unified behind, love him or hate him, former Gov. John H. Sununu. As chairman, he rebuilt finances and staff, became a relentless messenger for the cause, and the 2010 election results spoke for themselves.
Sununu, however, could not control his own state committee in the end, when his choice of a successor, Bergeron, lost to Kimball. It just showed, again, how unpredictable the state committee can be.
Sununu has stayed out of it this time, but the committee remains as unpredictable as ever.
How much GOP enthusiasm will Horn and Hemingway generate? How committed are the Republicans to rebuilding?
We'll see on Saturday.
WHO'S WITH WHOM? Endorsements are piling up for the two.
Wednesday, Kimball, still a major player in the Tea Party/liberty movement but not a voting state committee member, backed Hemingway, calling him "the only candidate who can and will unite our party."
State Sen. Andy Sanborn followed with an endorsement of Hemingway.
Horn picked up a strong group of backers in the five members of the Manchester Republican Committee's executive board: Chairman Will Infantine and members Tammy Simmons, B.J. Perry, Lisa Swank and Sean Thomas.
Those came the day after former Manchester chairman Cliff Hurst told us he's backing Hemingway.
Infantine and the other Manchester board members said the party needs a chair "who will mobilize grassroots activists, utilize new technologies, articulate our message and raise the funds necessary to ensure it reaches voters throughout New Hampshire." And Horn is their person.
Funny thing is the messages of support for either candidate are similar: Horn/Hemingway will bring stronger messaging, stronger fund-raising and better use of technology.
Horn on Tuesday was backed by 15 voting members of the Nashua Republican City Committee.
Both Hemingway and Horn sent out positive, full-color mailers this week with similar messages, focusing on improving both technology and messaging.
But as we report above, Emiro dropped out on Thursday afternoon, leaving Marzullo unopposed.
Only the committee members from that area will vote in that race.
Uncontested are Diane Bitter for secretary, Robert Scott for treasurer and Eileen Smiglowski for assistant treasurer.
Uncontested vice chairs are Vicki Schwaegler for Area I, Jim Doburn for Area II, Mark Vincent for Area III and Alan Glassman for Area V.
Bedford's Sanborn will deliver opening remarks. The committee is also scheduled to hear from U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Executive Councilor Chris Sununu, Senate President Peter Bragdon and House Republican Leader Gene Chandler.
BY-LAW PROPOSALS. The state committee will vote on nine changes to party by-laws, including a provision to forbid government employees from being state committee members. MacDonald, the out-going chairman, is a state employee.
Other proposals include creation of the positions of chairman-emeritus, coalition chairman and assistant to the chairman for technology on the party executive committee.
Potentially controversial proposals address whether the executive committee can impose a "tax or fee" on state committee members. One would forbid the executive committee from doing so and another would require a three-fifths majority of the entire state committee.
A plan to charge committee members $25 was raised and quickly squelched following widespread opposition last year.
Another proposal would allow the executive committee to vote on whether the party chairman should be paid.
JOE AND FRIENDS. While the Republicans prepared for serious business this week, the Democrats reveled in their successes.
As we reported earlier, a large group of Granite Staters attended the inaugural of President Barack Obama with an influential group invited to Vice President Joe Biden's official residence, the U.S. Naval Observatory, on Sunday for an inaugural reception.
For Biden, it appeared to be a look ahead to 2016.
Afterward, state Sen. Lou D'Allesandro told Politico, "I took a look at who was there, and said to myself, 'There's no question he's thinking about the future.'"
Politico reported the group of about 200 guests was heavy with Democrats from not only first-primary state New Hampshire, but from first-caucus state Iowa.
BIG CROWD EXPECTED. The confirmed guest list for a Feb. 7 Republican "soul-searching" meeting hosted by Mike Biundo, Derek Dufresne and Kory Wood of the RightOn Strategies consulting firm is growing.
Both major candidates for NHGOP chair, Horn and Hemingway, have committed to the event at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College.
We've now learned from someone who will attend that the guest list includes:
Kevin Smith, former candidate for governor and former executive director of Cornerstone Policy Research; Kimball; former House speaker Bill O'Brien, Corey Lewandowski, state director of Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire; current Cornerstone Executive Director Ashley Pratte, former Cornerstone executive director Shannon McGinley, Sanborn, Rockingham County GOP Chair Regina Birdsell and former Rockingham County GOP chair Michael Silverwood.
Also, Hillsborough County GOP chair Ray Chadwick, Manchester chair Infantine, Rochester chair Randy Bowen, Concord chair Kerry Marsh, Granite Grok blog co-founder Skip Murphy and NHGOP vice chair candidate Marzullo.
A FIRST LOOK. Secretary of State Bill Gardner is in Washington today as co-chairman of the National Association of Secretaries of States' presidential primaries subcommittee.
Gardner said it's the first event the secretaries from across the country will have looking ahead to the 2016 primary and caucus calendar.
Gardner said a discussion of the rules adopted for the nominating calendar by each national party will be headed by former Gov. Sununu, who chaired the Republican National Convention Rules Committee, and Jim Roosevelt of Massachusetts, the longtime chair of the Democratic National Committee Rules and By-Laws Committee.
Both political parties last year adopted rules giving New Hampshire's 2016 primary strong protection and to try to dissuade "renegade" states, such as Florida and, lately, Nevada from trying to wreak havoc next time around.
(John DiStaso is senior political reporter of the New Hampshire Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News. He can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter: @jdistaso.)


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Police suicide
"I walked into the district house one morning. It was real quiet in there, which was odd because you had 70 or 80 officers there. I walked up to my partner and asked what was going on. He said 'Jimmie checked out last night.' I asked, 'What do you mean?' 'He blew his brains out,' my partner said."
"I was never suicidal in a typical fashion. I never had any gun play and didn't want to slit my wrists. I developed health problems and there were times I would lay in bed for days on end hoping I'd pass in my sleep. That was my suicide."
"Slick was a good solid guy. He was very loyal; loyal to the department and loyal to me."
The stories of suicide among police ranks are as varied as the officers themselves, but they all have one thing in common: police work and the stressors that brings.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 31,600 Americans committed suicide in 2004. The National P.O.L.I.C.E. Suicide Foundation estimates 447 of these were police officers. And the numbers have increased. The foundation currently projects an officer kills him or herself every 17 hours. Unfortunately, an accurate number is hard to gather due to many factors, including researchers disagreeing over methodology and police agencies listing cause of death as accidental.
"We've decided we don't need to come up with a number, but say, one is too many and we do have one," says Dr. Audrey Honig, chair of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) police psychology service sector. "And as long as we have any, we have too many, and we have to address the issues and reduce the rate."
The stigma of suicide
In the general population, a stigma surrounds suicide. This stigma can be exaggerated when the victim is a police officer. "A lot of times, other officers think that officer was weak or had a psychological problem," states Dr. Thomas Gillan of the Central Florida Police Stress Unit (CFPSU) Inc. Allen Kates, author of "CopShock: Surviving Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)," supports this, "It is very common for the other police officers, especially the partners, to try and find fault with the officers who killed themselves. This is a natural reaction because if they can't find fault, it could happen to anyone." The stigma surrounding suicide often seeps into the department's response to the family of the deceased.
Teresa Tate had been married for two years when her husband graduated the police academy. Six years later, he was dead by his own hand. Her husband's colleagues were told not to contact her and barred from showing solidarity at his funeral. "The chief of police called me the day before the memorial service requesting permission to wear his dress blues, which I thought was strange," Tate states. "Then he alluded to the fact word had gone out that they were not allowed to wear their uniforms. This directive came from his captain."
Dealing with grief over the loss of her husband, Tate found no solace in his police family - no one contacted her. Then, around the first anniversary of her husband's death, a former coworker came to her house with a donation and a card. "They wanted to let me know they were thinking of me, but a whole year had passed without contact," Tate says.
Since his death, Tate founded the support group Survivors of Law Enforcement Suicide (SOLES) and is active in Tears of a Cop (TOAC), which was started by Cheryl Rehl-Hahn, the sister of an officer who committed suicide.
Blue wall of silence
Although many law enforcement professionals insist the blue wall of silence is not prevalent, or deny it exists, this term suits most officers' feelings about seeking mental health services. "In the old school, you don't give an officer up," states Renee Meador, who retired after 28 years as a Virginia police officer and is now the law enforcement in-service training supervisor at the Central Shenandoah Criminal Justice Training Academy. "You see someone who needs help and in your heart you know he is not OK. But, we are trained not to push it further. The blue wall of silence has allowed officers to spiral down."
"There is a lot of peer pressure to keep your mouth shut, in departments, amongst officers, even with partners," adds Kates. "If a police officer is out with his partner and he is revealing all his feelings about his stress, his partner is going to wonder what will happen if they get into a really bad situation. He might ask himself, 'Will he save my life?'"
The psychologist is paid by the department
Even if an officer acknowledges he or she needs to seek professional help, the choices might prevent him from actually making that appointment.
Numerous departments offer an Employment Assistance Program (EAP), which allows officers to see a mental health practitioner for any personal problem. Although these can be good services, most officers are wary of sharing emotional information with anyone affiliated with the department. "They have a lack of trust," states Robert Douglas Jr., executive director of the National P.O.L.I.C.E. Suicide Foundation and a retired Baltimore, Maryland, police officer. "If they thought they could talk to someone who wouldn't go to the agency and risk being placed on admin duty, they would talk to you. They are scared what they say will leak out because management owns EAP."
Marshall Frank retired as a captain after 30 years of service with the Miami-Dade (Florida) Police Department. He recalls that he sought professional help privately and paid for it privately when he needed some additional help. "I couldn't afford for my department hierarchy to think they had a nut job," he explains. "My bosses would have thought, 'we can't have Marshall in this job if he's seeing a shrink.' I couldn't let my employees think they were working for a crazy. When you are seeking help, people think you're crazy. This is still prevalent today."
Police work creates stress-related problems
Several factors in police work create stress and many of the common coping mechanisms officers use intensify the problem. "Officers have been trained to make order out of disorder. They have been trained to take control of situations," says Dr. Lorraine Greene, manager of the behavioral health service division of Tennessee's Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, "If they hesitate, they put themselves or others in danger. They feel whatever their emotion is they have to put them on the back burner. The public expects that."
Many elements of law enforcement contribute to stress reactions, including shift work, pending retirement, negative public perceptions, unsupportive management and physical ailments. When these are compounded or aggravated by personal problems, such as relationship, financial and substance abuse, police officers find themselves under immense amounts of stress.
"Sixteen years ago, we started to train robo-cop. We messed up by telling them you can't be human," states Meador. "Officers began to deal with emotion like a junk drawer. You put things in that junk drawer as it happens. In a perfect world, you should be going through the junk drawer and tossing things but we keep stuffing that drawer until it busts the hinges." If an officer does not deal with stress in a healthy manner, depression, burn-out and suicide could be the result.
Critical incidents
Any look at police work-related stress would be incomplete without addressing critical incidents. "Police departments need to become more aware and learn about certain mental disorders like posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)," Tate explains, "When there is a critical incident; they need to have peer support and psychological counseling. You have to have the appropriate professionals helping the officers cope with what they witnessed and what they had to do in the performance of their jobs."
Don Vine, a 24-year police veteran, was involved in two officer-involved shootings within one month. In the aftermath, he found himself fighting with himself internally and externally with his police agency. "PTSD affects your family and your friends. It can be devastating especially if you don't know what it is. You're frustrated with your family, friends and doctor. No one wants to help you," Vine explains, "Why do police officers commit suicide? Because their department didn't recognize it. The officer is left alone with no way out." It was only through seeking help privately and making several lifestyle changes that Vine began to heal.
Socialization and access to firearms
"Ninety-seven percent (of officers' suicides) use their own service weapon," Douglas says. Officers have a special relationship with their gun. It is a source of control, of confidence and of comfort. In the academy, officers are taught to shoot with accuracy, how to clean their firearm, and tactics for maintaining control of it in a fight.
Although some critics argue the high rate of using a gun in a police-involved suicide is due to accessibility, others disagree. "I don't know if it's as much accessibility, as it is familiarity," Meador says. "It's an old friend." Douglas agrees, "The weapon has a significance. It has an identity. It picks up the personality of a best friend. It becomes 'someone' who is trustworthy, reliable and 'someone' with a solution."
Intervention and prevention
Most officers who commit suicide are not mentally ill or weak. Many have failed to cope effectively with their stress. Often afflicted with professional and personal troubles, an officer often feels trapped and out of control. When they see no way out, suicide is often the result. "Officers are trained to deal with people who are suicidal and to talk them down from shooting themselves or taking pills," Kates says of the irony, "They don't apply it to themselves. When they are in tremendous pain at the time of suicide, they don't use the skills." It is up to those around them to notice if an officer appears to be struggling and take action.
Peer support
Departments around the country have taken action by implementing peer support units (PSUs). When the Metropolitan Nashville PD began its PSU in the late 1990's, officials didn't pick just anyone to be part of the unit. Instead they asked department personnel to submit the names of individuals they thought would be good support people. "They nominated people they felt confident and comfortable with," Greene says. After interviews assessing levels of commitment, each had to commit to initial and follow-up training. Eventually, Nashville's PSU expanded to support smaller departments.
Meador states PSU's offer things traditional departmental mental health programs cannot. "There is a confidentiality that is born from within that peer group," she states, "It is a peer who has been through the same experiences you have. When they say they know how you feel. They do know how you feel."
Acknowledging the problem
Along with implementing PSU's, agency management must be willing to acknowledge the problem of police suicide and support changes. "We need leadership willing to take responsibility for the rank and file not transfer the responsibility nor deny the responsibility," Douglas says, "We need leadership who are not just willing to steer the ship, but to chart the course."
Gillan agrees support must come from the top. "The chief or sheriff has to say it's alright to talk about it and ask for help," he says. "He has to be the one to be at the academy talking to recruits and saying we feel good about this. We have people you can talk to and feel comfortable with. Then the officer will remember the chief, and say, 'Yep, I can talk to someone about it.'"
Another important aspect in the fight against police suicide is training. Officers require all the information they need to fight stress. "When we train at the trainer academy, I try to stress that they might have trauma symptoms," Greene states. "Whatever mechanism they have used to try and overcome is overwhelmed."
Greene notes the major educational piece is spending time teaching police about mental health in general. "We need to get the word out about how to respond and support each other," she says.
Honig suggests supervisors be trained to identify and respond to officers in need. Families also need to be included in department suicide prevention, adds Gillan. "Family is the No. 1 support," he stresses. Meador agrees that anyone of importance in an officer's life must have an understanding of what an officer deals with on a daily basis and know how to get them to open up.
However the training is constructed, the main thing is that officers need to feel comfortable talking to someone, somewhere, if they need to. Also, officers must be trained to recognize symptoms of stress and indicators of suicide. "If you see someone struggling," Gillan says, "reach out to that person. And if you don't have the skills or tools, find people to help that person."
Fellow officers must be willing to get involved, Kates emphasizes. He says officers can take a number of approaches in this effort. They might take the onus off themselves and relate an instance where they were having problems and talked to their priest, therapist or wife. Or they might say, "I noticed you're not quite on your game and what you went through was pretty big. Do you want to talk?," he says.
Like most problems, a little communication goes a long way. Supervisors, coworkers and family members must be trained and willing to talk. Supervisors must be encouraged to deal with solvable stress-related problems at an administrative level. Resources should be offered and followed up on, but unless an officer commits an act contrary to his oath, disciplinary action should be avoided. This is especially important if a department wants to quell officers' fears of seeking help and losing their job.
Even though quantification of police suicide has divided many professionals, they all have one thing in common: saving lives. "We are killing ourselves faster than the bad guys are," Meador says, "It's such a tragedy. Just open your eyes and heart for just a minute."
The IACP is putting together a clearinghouse of best practices for prevention and intervention. "A lot of agencies around the country have terrific programs and everyone is kind of reinventing their own wheel," Honig states. "We need to refine it and make the information available to all agencies."
Many police suicides can be prevented with awareness and access to accurate information and support services. Unfortunately, as Gillan points out, "Until we can talk about this in an open form, sit down and talk about what is going on in our family, we won't be able to resolve any issues." If breaking through stigma and old ways of perception can save the life of just one of our brothers or sisters, it is worth the effort.
Additional written resources
"Death with no Valor" by Robert Douglas
"Police Suicide: Tactics for Prevention 2003" by Dell Hackett and John Violanti
"CopShock: Surviving Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)" by Allen R. Kates
"Police Suicide: Epidemic in Blue," 2nd Edition, by John Violanti
-All books listed are available online at www.amazon.com.
Additional online resources
Central Florida Police Stress Unit
International Critical Incident Stress Foundation
Love a Cop
National P.O.L.I.C.E Suicide Foundation
Police Families.com
Police Wives.Org
Tears of a Cop
The Heavy Badge
Warning signs of suicide
The following are some signs of suicidal intentions from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
- Threatening to hurt or kill oneself or talking about wanting to hurt or kill oneself.
- Looking for ways to kill oneself by seeking access to firearms, pills or other means.
- Talking or writing about death, dying or suicide when these actions are out of the ordinary for the person.
- Feeling hopeless.
- Feeling rage or uncontrolled anger or seeking revenge.
- Acting reckless or engaging in risky activities - seemingly without thinking.
- Feeling trapped - like there's no way out.
- Increasing alcohol or drug use.
- Withdrawing from friends, family, and society.
- Feeling anxious, agitated, or unable to sleep or sleeping all the time.
- Experiencing dramatic mood changes.
- Seeing no reason for living or having no sense of purpose in life.
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Michelle Perin is a freelance writer who worked as a police telecommunications operator with the Phoenix (Arizona) Police Department for eight years. Currently, she is working on her M.A. in Criminology from Indiana State University. For more information visit www.thewritinghand.net.


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His wife, his small kids. We don't know them so well. Our girls occasionally play outside with their kids. Their younger two were the age of our two now when we moved in to this house. I keep thinking of his wife.
Their life is our life, six years behind. In six years the lovely husband will be 41. We'll have three elementary-school-aged kids. Their house is our house. Their yard is our yard. Their life is our life, just a little further along a timeline.
This life we built, we built it together. This life is too big to manage alone. It's too much.
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