Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Lex: Both linkee same-same..
Now moh bettah.
Dear Mr Lex,
I have to admit that if I could make the choice again knowing what I know now I would have joined the American forces, better pay, prospects, training, equipment, medical etc etc.
After all you end up in the same places and are less likely to be bombed by your own side, with the added benefit of loads more firepower and we all appreciate that.
One last comment about your old mate Beef. Yes, it’s a cool job but recently I found out what an old OC of mine was up to. He is 57, he was in Afghanistan, in April of this year.
Speaking of career moves from real pilot to drone pilot, until the science makes sure it’s safe: Flying on green stuff article here.
Senator Ensign just needs to swap parties and maybe move to Arkansas. Oh, and deny everyhing. Always. He may still have a future. Just not for the people on the right.
The rumor mill has it that this wasn’t a career move for the mid, but an ongoing issue that was brought along from high school.
“But Officer, It’s just for my personal use, really.”
Thanks for the post of the COOL site. To coin a phrase, that is really cool. I looked up my daughters rating and there were over 20 certifications she could theoretically get.
As a Navy Dad, I am more and more impressed by how the Navy takes care of it’s young Sailors. Sure wish I were 30 years younger.
Maybe Ensign “Weed” could convert this into a plus- diversity means more than race, right? Shouldn’t the Navy have Admirals and Sailors who are pot-heads in the same proportion as the US in general? He could be first on the hempen-flag track if he has some support from the hill. He should also get diversity points for illegal border crossing. After all, undocumented border entry is part of the US national experience as well.
Potosi J- But ONLY if he doesn’t inhale.
Whoa, tough crowd in the ready room today, Bo! So the poor guy gets caught, loses his stash, gets booted out of Boat School, has to pay back for his 3 years, and gets a couple of years to contemplate his mischief.
give it a couple of weeks and he’ll be the poster boy for the Pot Legalization NOW! committee. After all, the US Mil needs “every qualified individual” regardless of sexual orientation, physical limitations, controlled substance abuse, intolerance of diversity, or any other previously non-qualifying condition. Why lose this talented and obviously entrepreneurial young’un? Make him into a Suppo.
“Diversity is Strength”. kinda sounds like one of those George Orwell phrases or something over the gates of the gulag.
I wonder if that midshipman at age 24 was another graduate of that NAPs school? Disproportionate analogy. Noted though.
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I wonder if that midshipman, at age 24, was another graduate of that NAP school talked about below for minorities, jocks (gotta have DIV-1a, ho-hum) and lastly, up from the ranks and deserving enlisted? I’ll put money on it.
BTW, disproportionate analogy: 125 LB (not ounce) dope smuggler vs. Republican senator cutting slice on the sly? One is criminal the other is a moral dilemma only cared about by Republican’s in the first place generally (notice I didn’t use that code word conservative- that’s just a mood).
Point noted though.
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b2! Duh-ude.
I had a tasty reply but I uh, I uh,… ah forget it. Dang duh-ude, wassup with the gappin’ short term memory?
603,
I think our honorable scribe Lex edited it for me and took out all the “visuals”..Torturous ain’t they? I’m far from an efficient writer though I did take English Comp 101 back in the early ’70′s. So-solly! LOL.
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