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Showing posts with label Army Navy Game. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Army Navy Game. Show all posts
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Saturday, December 10, 2011
A DECADE OF DOMINATION / NAVY BEATS ARMY AGAIN
NAVY 27 - ARMY 21 / A decade of NAVY Football beating ARMY...AWESOME
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Remember & honor the US Navy SEALS who died in the line of duty...You can sleep easy because they gave their all for you & me
BRAVO ZULU to the US NAVY SEALS and our deepest condolences to the families of these splendid warriors. They were together with their " brothers " and valued K-9 companion. Now they are forever in our prayers.Don't forget to honor the Navy SEALS who died in the line of duty
Michael Daly - NY DAILY NEWS
If you went to Ground Zero or Times Square or anywhere else to cheer and chant "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" after Navy SEAL Team Six brought justice to Osama Bin Laden, go back there Sunday.
Go back and offer a moment of silence for the 22 men from SEAL Team Six and all the others aboard the helicopter that was shot down in Afghanistan yesterday.
SEAL Team Six is divided into four squadrons and the one aboard the helicopter was not the one that actually got Bin Laden, but it had long been part of the effort to track him down.
And, like the rest of the SEALs, they had continued to put themselves in harm's way after the crowds that chanted "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" dispersed and went back to acting as if there were no war. The SEALs kept beings SEALs as we walked around as if nobody were risking all for our sake, as if we had no obligation to stand together as a nation behind them.
A dear friend of mine who trained with the SEAL Team Six after 9/11 ran into a member of the ill-fated squadron last month. The SEAL said he was deploying the next day, right after an all-important event.
"I'm going to be with my kids," the SEAL told my friend. "We're going to breakfast at McDonald's."
After breakfast with his kids, the SEAL headed off to Afghanistan, where his squadron was about to suffer such a terrible loss. My friend can only hope this particular SEAL was not aboard the helicopter, though that would mean it was someone else.
"You get a little selfish hoping it's not somebody that you know," my friend said.
The thought that so many SEALs had been lost was even harder to take now that Bin Laden was dead and our strategy in Afghanistan seems to be finding a way to extricate ourselves.
"A stopgap thing until we get out of there," my friend said. "It's not worth one of them, nevermind 22 of them, for a place you're going to walk away from."
Not that the SEALs complain or are one step slower in doing whatever is asked of them, no matter how dangerous.
With the loss of 22 SEALs along with eight other Americans and seven Afghan commandos came a reminder; in combat there is sometimes no protection even for the most highly trained and highly skilled warriors.
The bad guys knew when the Chinook helicopter swooped down into an Afghan valley that it would have to rise once those aboard were done. All the Taliban needed to do was wait on a mountainside.
The Chinook rose with a SEAL contingent that likely could have held off thousands of the enemy on the ground. The SEALs could do nothing in the air against an insurgent with a rocket.
"A moment of vulnerability," my friend said.
Among the SEALs were a dog handler and a dog that would remind outsiders of Cujo, but held a special place in the hearts of the squadron.
SEALs have a soft spot for their dogs, perhaps partly because a canine's keen senses can alert them to danger and give them a critical edge. A dog also allows resolutely reticent warriors to express a little affection; you can pet a pooch, if not another SEAL.
Many of the SEALs have a dog stateside. To take one on a mission may be like bringing along something of home. And home likely has taken on even deeper meaning as the long years of this war convinced ever more SEALs that they could not wait for it to end before starting a family. The tragedy is almost certainly compounded by children suddenly left without fathers.
With the loss of so many of our best warriors, we should honor them with a pledge to follow what is best in ourselves and therefore best for our country.
And, don't forget the ones that have remained out there long after those chants of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!"
mdaly@nydailynews.com
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
America’s Jedi knights - The US Navy Seals
I like the way the author frames the story by saying the US Navy Seals are, " America’s Jedi Knights "In Star Wars, my favorite character is Obi Wan Kenobi. His dedication, humanity and honor make him stand out. In the last movie Lucas made, Obi Wan has to use a Blaster to dispatch General Grievous. He takes him out and watches as the villain dies....as he walks away he tosses the Blaster to the floor with distain stating, " How uncivilized.."
The US Navy Seals would likely prefer a Blaster but I bet there are a few who wouldn't mind trying out a Light Saber if such an item existed....
May 8, 2011
Muscle Memory: The Training of Navy Seals Commandos
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI / NY TIMES
They are America’s Jedi knights: the elite of the elite, an all-star team of commandos, “tier one” special operations warriors given mission-impossible assignments in the most dangerous parts of the planet. A week ago, when Seal Team 6 took out public enemy No. 1, Osama bin Laden, Jon Stewart hailed its members as real-life “X-Men,” ABC compared them to Superman, and Newsweek described them as “the coolest guys in the world,” working “anonymously and without public recognition.” Each year, according to the Navy Seals Web site, about 1,000 men start Seals training, and usually about only 200 to 250 succeed. Basic training includes the infamous “hell week”: five and a half days in which candidates sleep only a total of four hours and must run more than 200 miles, and do physical training for more than 20 hours per day. And after years of more training, only a fraction of experienced Seals members go on to join Seal Team 6, a secret unit created after the failed attempt in 1980 to rescue American hostages in Iran and tasked mainly with counterterrorism and counterinsurgency assignments.
Members of Team 6 have reportedly hunted down war criminals in Bosnia, engaged in some of the fiercest battles in Afghanistan, and in 2009 they took down three Somali pirates and rescued an American hostage with just three bullets.
By coincidence there are two new memoirs by former Seals members: “Seal Team Six” by Howard E. Wasdin, a Team 6 member who was seriously wounded in the battle of Mogadishu in 1993; and “The Heart and the Fist” by Eric Greitens, a former Rhodes scholar who joined the Navy Seals in 2001 (and who was not a member of Seal Team 6). Although the two volumes could not be more different in tone — Mr. Wasdin’s narrative is visceral and as action packed as a Tom Clancy thriller; Mr. Greitens’s is more philosophical and big picture oriented — both are coming-of-age stories that, like earlier Seals books, recount the ordeal of basic underwater demolition training in grueling detail.
Both books will also leave readers with a new appreciation of the training that enabled Seal Team 6 to pull off the Bin Laden raid with such precision, making its way into the heavily secured compound, killing the terror mastermind with two shots, scooping up a gold mine of intelligence and making a getaway despite one downed helicopter.
Just as important as the tactical lessons in specific skills (like sniper surveillance, sentry removal, intelligence gathering), both authors emphasize, are practice, teamwork and stress and endurance training, which help equip members of the Seals with the emotional ability to manage fear and the muscle memory and instinct to grapple with any sort of contingency and physical threat.
“Seals are frequently misunderstood as America’s deadliest commando force,” Mr. Greitens writes. “It’s true that Seals are capable of great violence, but that’s not what makes Seals truly special. Given two weeks of training and a bunch of rifles, any reasonably fit group of 16 athletes (the size of a Seal platoon) can be trained to do harm. What makes Seals special is that we can be thoughtful, disciplined and proportional in our use of force.”
Mr. Wasdin too underscores the members ability to find “the appropriate level of violence required by the situation, turning it up and down like the dimmer on a light switch,” adding, “You don’t always want the chandeliers on bright.”
It was his painful childhood in Florida and Georgia with a bully of a stepfather, Mr. Wasdin says, that prepared him for the worst of Seals training and, later, actual combat, teaching him how to control his “thoughts, emotions, and pain at an early age” as “a matter of survival.” He recalls that his stepfather “would mercilessly beat me with a belt,” when he failed to pick up every pecan that fell from the trees onto their family’s driveway: “Didn’t matter if any had fallen since I had picked them all up. It was my fault for not showing due diligence.” He worked picking watermelons for his family and learned to drive an 18-wheeler. He signed up to do Search and Rescue for the Navy at 20, after running out of money to keep paying for college.
Mr. Greitens took a very different path to the Seals. Growing up in Missouri, his big fears were that he’d “been born at the wrong time” — that “the time for heroes” might have passed — and that he might miss his “ticket to a meaningful life.” He attended Duke University, won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford and earned a Ph.D., writing a dissertation on humanitarian movements and relief work.
Over the years Mr. Greitens would work in refugee camps in Croatia, visit aid projects in Rwanda and meet Mother Teresa in India. He became an “advocate for using power, where necessary, to protect the weak, to end ethnic cleansing, to end genocide” but wondered how he could “ask others to put themselves in harm’s way” when he hadn’t done so himself. At 26 he signed up with the Navy, turning down offers to stay on at Oxford and a lucrative consulting job.
Although Mr. Greitens does an evocative job of describing the hell of training and the valor of the comrades he served with in Iraq, much of his book is concerned with the evolution of his larger vision of public service. And readers specifically interested in the Seals experience will get a better sense of their tradecraft and day-to-day training from Mr. Wasdin’s “Seal Team Six” (which was written with Stephen Templin, an associate professor at Meio University in Japan, whom he met years ago during Seals training).
In that book Mr. Wasdin (known as “Waz-man” to his colleagues, “Casanova,” “Little Big Man” and “Sourpuss”) lays out his own account of the battle of Mogadishu in harrowing detail — an account that in terms of sheer drama rivals passages from Mark Bowden’s 1999 best-seller “Black Hawk Down” and that reminds the reader how easily a mission can go south. Mr. Wasdin also offers adrenaline-laced memories of other assignments, like detonating an unexploded Tomahawk missile in Iraq during the first Gulf war and the toll that constant travel and dangerous secret missions took on his family life.
Along the way readers are treated to some highly tactile descriptions of the sorts of singular skills members of the Seals must acquire. Mr. Wasdin writes about training with live ammo and conveys his experience of “drown-proofing” (in which he swam two lengths of a pool with his feet and hands bound). This is how he describes the proper application of camouflage: “When painting the skin, it’s important to appear the opposite of how a human being looks: Make the dark become light and the light become dark. That means making sure the parts of the face that form shadows (where the eyes sink in, etc.) become light green and the features that shine (forehead, cheeks, nose, brow and chin) become dark green.”
Mr. Wasdin recounts how he learned, as a sniper, to calculate wind speed and direction, and how he customized his green aviator gloves by dying them black and cutting off the tips of the trigger finger and thumb on the right side. He also recalls how he knew, before an official mission briefing, when an assignment was going to involve travel to a dangerous war zone. Some Navy planes, he notes, have “jet-assisted takeoff (Jato) bottles on them” for “getting in the air a lot quicker, a good thing to have when people are shooting at you.” If you saw your plane was outfitted with Jato bottles, he says, you knew your “destination wasn’t going to be good.”
The attention to detail Mr. Wasdin learned as a child — “making sure that not one single pecan remained on the ground” so as to avoid a whipping from his stepfather — would help keep him safe in the Seals. It would help protect him “from getting shot or blown up” and insure that he never had a parachute malfunction.
Preparation, practice and precision, Mr. Wasdin notes, are equally important — something the Bin Laden Seals team well knows, having meticulously rehearsed its raid at a full-scale replica of the Bin Laden compound built at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. “The more you train in peace,” writes Mr. Wasdin, “the less you bleed in war.”
The US Navy Seals would likely prefer a Blaster but I bet there are a few who wouldn't mind trying out a Light Saber if such an item existed....
May 8, 2011
Muscle Memory: The Training of Navy Seals Commandos
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI / NY TIMES
They are America’s Jedi knights: the elite of the elite, an all-star team of commandos, “tier one” special operations warriors given mission-impossible assignments in the most dangerous parts of the planet. A week ago, when Seal Team 6 took out public enemy No. 1, Osama bin Laden, Jon Stewart hailed its members as real-life “X-Men,” ABC compared them to Superman, and Newsweek described them as “the coolest guys in the world,” working “anonymously and without public recognition.” Each year, according to the Navy Seals Web site, about 1,000 men start Seals training, and usually about only 200 to 250 succeed. Basic training includes the infamous “hell week”: five and a half days in which candidates sleep only a total of four hours and must run more than 200 miles, and do physical training for more than 20 hours per day. And after years of more training, only a fraction of experienced Seals members go on to join Seal Team 6, a secret unit created after the failed attempt in 1980 to rescue American hostages in Iran and tasked mainly with counterterrorism and counterinsurgency assignments.
Members of Team 6 have reportedly hunted down war criminals in Bosnia, engaged in some of the fiercest battles in Afghanistan, and in 2009 they took down three Somali pirates and rescued an American hostage with just three bullets.
By coincidence there are two new memoirs by former Seals members: “Seal Team Six” by Howard E. Wasdin, a Team 6 member who was seriously wounded in the battle of Mogadishu in 1993; and “The Heart and the Fist” by Eric Greitens, a former Rhodes scholar who joined the Navy Seals in 2001 (and who was not a member of Seal Team 6). Although the two volumes could not be more different in tone — Mr. Wasdin’s narrative is visceral and as action packed as a Tom Clancy thriller; Mr. Greitens’s is more philosophical and big picture oriented — both are coming-of-age stories that, like earlier Seals books, recount the ordeal of basic underwater demolition training in grueling detail.
Both books will also leave readers with a new appreciation of the training that enabled Seal Team 6 to pull off the Bin Laden raid with such precision, making its way into the heavily secured compound, killing the terror mastermind with two shots, scooping up a gold mine of intelligence and making a getaway despite one downed helicopter.
Just as important as the tactical lessons in specific skills (like sniper surveillance, sentry removal, intelligence gathering), both authors emphasize, are practice, teamwork and stress and endurance training, which help equip members of the Seals with the emotional ability to manage fear and the muscle memory and instinct to grapple with any sort of contingency and physical threat.
“Seals are frequently misunderstood as America’s deadliest commando force,” Mr. Greitens writes. “It’s true that Seals are capable of great violence, but that’s not what makes Seals truly special. Given two weeks of training and a bunch of rifles, any reasonably fit group of 16 athletes (the size of a Seal platoon) can be trained to do harm. What makes Seals special is that we can be thoughtful, disciplined and proportional in our use of force.”
Mr. Wasdin too underscores the members ability to find “the appropriate level of violence required by the situation, turning it up and down like the dimmer on a light switch,” adding, “You don’t always want the chandeliers on bright.”
It was his painful childhood in Florida and Georgia with a bully of a stepfather, Mr. Wasdin says, that prepared him for the worst of Seals training and, later, actual combat, teaching him how to control his “thoughts, emotions, and pain at an early age” as “a matter of survival.” He recalls that his stepfather “would mercilessly beat me with a belt,” when he failed to pick up every pecan that fell from the trees onto their family’s driveway: “Didn’t matter if any had fallen since I had picked them all up. It was my fault for not showing due diligence.” He worked picking watermelons for his family and learned to drive an 18-wheeler. He signed up to do Search and Rescue for the Navy at 20, after running out of money to keep paying for college.
Mr. Greitens took a very different path to the Seals. Growing up in Missouri, his big fears were that he’d “been born at the wrong time” — that “the time for heroes” might have passed — and that he might miss his “ticket to a meaningful life.” He attended Duke University, won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford and earned a Ph.D., writing a dissertation on humanitarian movements and relief work.
Over the years Mr. Greitens would work in refugee camps in Croatia, visit aid projects in Rwanda and meet Mother Teresa in India. He became an “advocate for using power, where necessary, to protect the weak, to end ethnic cleansing, to end genocide” but wondered how he could “ask others to put themselves in harm’s way” when he hadn’t done so himself. At 26 he signed up with the Navy, turning down offers to stay on at Oxford and a lucrative consulting job.
Although Mr. Greitens does an evocative job of describing the hell of training and the valor of the comrades he served with in Iraq, much of his book is concerned with the evolution of his larger vision of public service. And readers specifically interested in the Seals experience will get a better sense of their tradecraft and day-to-day training from Mr. Wasdin’s “Seal Team Six” (which was written with Stephen Templin, an associate professor at Meio University in Japan, whom he met years ago during Seals training).
In that book Mr. Wasdin (known as “Waz-man” to his colleagues, “Casanova,” “Little Big Man” and “Sourpuss”) lays out his own account of the battle of Mogadishu in harrowing detail — an account that in terms of sheer drama rivals passages from Mark Bowden’s 1999 best-seller “Black Hawk Down” and that reminds the reader how easily a mission can go south. Mr. Wasdin also offers adrenaline-laced memories of other assignments, like detonating an unexploded Tomahawk missile in Iraq during the first Gulf war and the toll that constant travel and dangerous secret missions took on his family life.
Along the way readers are treated to some highly tactile descriptions of the sorts of singular skills members of the Seals must acquire. Mr. Wasdin writes about training with live ammo and conveys his experience of “drown-proofing” (in which he swam two lengths of a pool with his feet and hands bound). This is how he describes the proper application of camouflage: “When painting the skin, it’s important to appear the opposite of how a human being looks: Make the dark become light and the light become dark. That means making sure the parts of the face that form shadows (where the eyes sink in, etc.) become light green and the features that shine (forehead, cheeks, nose, brow and chin) become dark green.”
Mr. Wasdin recounts how he learned, as a sniper, to calculate wind speed and direction, and how he customized his green aviator gloves by dying them black and cutting off the tips of the trigger finger and thumb on the right side. He also recalls how he knew, before an official mission briefing, when an assignment was going to involve travel to a dangerous war zone. Some Navy planes, he notes, have “jet-assisted takeoff (Jato) bottles on them” for “getting in the air a lot quicker, a good thing to have when people are shooting at you.” If you saw your plane was outfitted with Jato bottles, he says, you knew your “destination wasn’t going to be good.”
The attention to detail Mr. Wasdin learned as a child — “making sure that not one single pecan remained on the ground” so as to avoid a whipping from his stepfather — would help keep him safe in the Seals. It would help protect him “from getting shot or blown up” and insure that he never had a parachute malfunction.
Preparation, practice and precision, Mr. Wasdin notes, are equally important — something the Bin Laden Seals team well knows, having meticulously rehearsed its raid at a full-scale replica of the Bin Laden compound built at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. “The more you train in peace,” writes Mr. Wasdin, “the less you bleed in war.”
Saturday, December 11, 2010
NAVY SINKS ARMY FOR 9th STRAIGHT TIME 31-17
A great day and a great game....
NAVY sinks Army for ninth straight time
NAVY sinks Army for ninth straight time
Midshipmen use longest TD pass, fumble return in 111-year history of rivalry to win 31-17
6:20 p.m. ET Dec. 11, 2010
PHILADELPHIA - The Midshipmen had already lost the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy. They weren't about to lose to Army, too.
Ricky Dobbs threw the longest touchdown pass in the 111-year history of the Army-Navy game, Wyatt Middleton had the longest fumble return in school history, and the Midshipmen extended their winning streak against Army to nine straight with a 31-17 victory Saturday.
Dobbs passed for 186 yards and two touchdowns in his final game against the Black Knights (6-6), one of 24 seniors to never lose to their rivals from West Point. Dobbs turned the ball over four times - three fumbles and an interception in the end zone - but also ran for a team-high 54 yards for Navy (9-3).
Trent Steelman threw for 128 yards and two scores for Army, but it was his fumble late in the first half that put the Black Knights in a hole too deep to escape.
They already trailed 17-7 with first-and-goal at the Navy 3 when Steelman got stood up on a quarterback keeper. The ball squirted from his hands and right to Middleton, who turned around to see nobody in a black jersey between him and the goal line. The 98-yard return made it 24-7 at halftime and silenced the grey-clad Cadets in the corner of Lincoln Financial Field.
Middleton, a senior, was named the game's MVP.
Army controlled the ball much of the second half, but could only muster Alex Carlton's 42-yard field goal before Steelman's late touchdown pass to Malcolm Brown provided the final margin.
Both teams lost to Air Force this season, ending the Midshipmen's seven-year grip on the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy awarded to the top service academy. But another victory over Army - the game that matters most on the schedule every year - certainly helped to ease that sting.
Army is still headed to its first bowl game since 1996, the Armed Forces Bowl on Dec. 30 in Dallas against SMU. The Midshipmen play San Diego State in the Poinsettia Bowl on Dec. 23.
The latest edition of one of college sports' marquee matchups certainly wasn't pretty, perhaps because of long layoffs for both teams. The Army-Navy game was moved back on the schedule to separate it from the multitude of conference title games that have assumed the spotlight in recent years, meaning the two schools had not played a meaningful snap since Nov. 20.
It showed right away, when the two teams swapped turnovers in the first four offensive plays. They combined to fumble six times in the first half alone, losing five of them.
Joe Buckley finally struck for Navy with a 36-yard field goal. After its defense held, Dobbs found John Howell alone behind the coverage and hit him in the stride. The sophomore outran both Army safeties 77 yards for the touchdown, the longest passing score in series history.
Dobbs made it 17-0 early in the second quarter when he zipped a pass to Brandon Turner between two defenders from 32 yards out. It was the first touchdown of Turner's career and allowed Dobbs to match Alton Grizzard's single-season school record with 12 touchdown passes.
The Black Knights finally scored with 8:19 left in the half when Steelman hit Brown from 5 yards out, their first touchdown against Navy since the fourth quarter of the 2006 game.
That's 201 minutes, 43 seconds of game time for those keeping track.
Army was poised to get within a field goal at halftime when Steelman plunged for the goal line with 1:03 remaining. He lost control of the ball, though, and Army lost control of the game.
By the time the final seconds ticked off the clock, the Midshipmen were headed to celebrate with their classmates in the corner of the stadium, a scene that has become all too familiar to the Cadets on the other sideline
PHILADELPHIA - The Midshipmen had already lost the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy. They weren't about to lose to Army, too.
Ricky Dobbs threw the longest touchdown pass in the 111-year history of the Army-Navy game, Wyatt Middleton had the longest fumble return in school history, and the Midshipmen extended their winning streak against Army to nine straight with a 31-17 victory Saturday.
Dobbs passed for 186 yards and two touchdowns in his final game against the Black Knights (6-6), one of 24 seniors to never lose to their rivals from West Point. Dobbs turned the ball over four times - three fumbles and an interception in the end zone - but also ran for a team-high 54 yards for Navy (9-3).
Trent Steelman threw for 128 yards and two scores for Army, but it was his fumble late in the first half that put the Black Knights in a hole too deep to escape.
They already trailed 17-7 with first-and-goal at the Navy 3 when Steelman got stood up on a quarterback keeper. The ball squirted from his hands and right to Middleton, who turned around to see nobody in a black jersey between him and the goal line. The 98-yard return made it 24-7 at halftime and silenced the grey-clad Cadets in the corner of Lincoln Financial Field.
Middleton, a senior, was named the game's MVP.
Army controlled the ball much of the second half, but could only muster Alex Carlton's 42-yard field goal before Steelman's late touchdown pass to Malcolm Brown provided the final margin.
Both teams lost to Air Force this season, ending the Midshipmen's seven-year grip on the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy awarded to the top service academy. But another victory over Army - the game that matters most on the schedule every year - certainly helped to ease that sting.
Army is still headed to its first bowl game since 1996, the Armed Forces Bowl on Dec. 30 in Dallas against SMU. The Midshipmen play San Diego State in the Poinsettia Bowl on Dec. 23.
The latest edition of one of college sports' marquee matchups certainly wasn't pretty, perhaps because of long layoffs for both teams. The Army-Navy game was moved back on the schedule to separate it from the multitude of conference title games that have assumed the spotlight in recent years, meaning the two schools had not played a meaningful snap since Nov. 20.
It showed right away, when the two teams swapped turnovers in the first four offensive plays. They combined to fumble six times in the first half alone, losing five of them.
Joe Buckley finally struck for Navy with a 36-yard field goal. After its defense held, Dobbs found John Howell alone behind the coverage and hit him in the stride. The sophomore outran both Army safeties 77 yards for the touchdown, the longest passing score in series history.
Dobbs made it 17-0 early in the second quarter when he zipped a pass to Brandon Turner between two defenders from 32 yards out. It was the first touchdown of Turner's career and allowed Dobbs to match Alton Grizzard's single-season school record with 12 touchdown passes.
The Black Knights finally scored with 8:19 left in the half when Steelman hit Brown from 5 yards out, their first touchdown against Navy since the fourth quarter of the 2006 game.
That's 201 minutes, 43 seconds of game time for those keeping track.
Army was poised to get within a field goal at halftime when Steelman plunged for the goal line with 1:03 remaining. He lost control of the ball, though, and Army lost control of the game.
By the time the final seconds ticked off the clock, the Midshipmen were headed to celebrate with their classmates in the corner of the stadium, a scene that has become all too familiar to the Cadets on the other sideline
GO NAVY - BEAT ARMY - Talking smack with a One-Star General in Kandahar about " The Game"
The Tradition continues....and we are glad to be able to share in watching NAVY beat ARMY like the rented mules they are....I was in Kandahar last Christmas, and had a great feast...it is one of the things that makes it tolerable to be there....the food is good.....at the head of the line was a One-Star Army type shaking hands with all...I wished him a Merry Christmas and told him I needed his help answering a question....no one else in the Army could answer, he being a One-star should be able to provide guidance -
” Sure son, what can I do for you?” he asks
I stated, ” Can you tell me why your boys can’t tackle 11 squids with a football for 8 years running????”
Well he laughed and replied, ” One day, we are going to take that trophy away from you…”
My reply, ” You will try, Sir….you will try.”
Message went out that night to e-mail friends,
” Christmas in Kandahar, Christmas Dinner with the Warfighters, Talking *Smack* with a One-star, does it get any better????”
And NO, it doesn’t get any better for this retired Petty Officer 1st class...
GO NAVY - BEAT ARMY
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