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Sunday, June 9, 2019
Hey! The ONE thing I was good at in the Navy.
I was the only Navy guy, and officer, in my dunker runs. The rest was enlisted Marine aircrew. In one of the dunks you wear goggles that are blacked out to simulate darkness, but it's all in a well lit (indoor, for me) pool with safety divers, as you see.
There is a trick to staying oriented, and I am comfortable and calm in the water. Even blind and upside down, with my sinuses and ears full of water. (It's top heavy, the UH-46 is, so it flips) The Marines? Some of them, not so much. If I didn't want to get a panicky kick in the face leaving I had to wait them out. So I was fine.
You wear, well we wore, flight gear, boots, helmet, gloves. Not bike helmets or what have you. Well, these aren't really aircrew types, I don't think. It is disorienting.
Their fake helicopter has much bigger hatches than mine did.
To be confident and competent enough with a rifle to be able to hit anything I can see in a Jovian Thunderbolt kind of way.
To be able to defend myself with a handgun.
To perhaps harvest some tasty venison with either a rifle or a shotgun, any skin or antler is just a nice bonus, here.
And, if necessary: To Defend the Ramparts of Democracy from a Level 4 Zombie Outbreak or against the Jacobin, Rampaging, Godless, Red-Commie Hordes (or their modern equivalent.)
"You never select a shotgun as your primary anti-zombie firearm. It's great for onesy twosey, but zombies travel in hordes. The reload time is onerous, and the ammo, while effective, is heavy and bulky and short ranged."
Big Mistake for Her
If Ginsberg had let Scalia put the words "strict scrutiny" in Heller and Hillary said "Gun control is just not going to be a priority for my administration," Hillary would have been elected President.
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