Mark Gilberg has served as a trooper with the Arizona Department of Public Safety since the March of 1981. 37 years later, it was time for him to retire. As his final shift came on to an end that Thursday, Gilberg picked up his communication device to call into dispatch one last time.
But Gilberg wasn’t just signing off like he did every day. He was signing off for the final time. In a tear-jerking speech that was short but touching, he said goodbye to the department that had been his life for the past four decades. As he began to say his farewells and thank yous into the radio, choked up with tears in his eyes before he even began, even the dispatcher couldn’t stop herself from crying. Read the full article here ▶
