And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I know someone who has done ride alongs with the CG Boat crew. Everyone is strapped in, and she was pretty bruised up after. Those boys and girls practice that stuff all the time. Dedicated to saving lives on the open sea.
When I was with Special Boat Squadron ONE in Coronado one of our more senior reservists could not understand why one of our brilliant E5 Petty Officers wouldn’t even try to take the test for E6. The reserve petty officer was a millionaire who lived and worked in Denver and he explained again and again, where else would he be allowed to drive SEAL boats on weekends and get paid to do it and besides he didn’t the money and finally he would point out that E6 didn’t drive the boats.
I know someone who has done ride alongs with the CG Boat crew. Everyone is strapped in, and she was pretty bruised up after. Those boys and girls practice that stuff all the time. Dedicated to saving lives on the open sea.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was with Special Boat Squadron ONE in Coronado one of our more senior reservists could not understand why one of our brilliant E5 Petty Officers wouldn’t even try to take the test for E6. The reserve petty officer was a millionaire who lived and worked in Denver and he explained again and again, where else would he be allowed to drive SEAL boats on weekends and get paid to do it and besides he didn’t the money and finally he would point out that E6 didn’t drive the boats.
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