That’s fantastic. It sounds more like training for the Navy SEALS indoc versus boot camp, though! The DI’s aren’t going to know what to do with you. But I predict you will quickly become the Guide and lead everyone else through. I see several meritorious promotions in your future.
That’s fantastic. It sounds more like training for the Navy SEALS indoc versus boot camp, though! The DI’s aren’t going to know what to do with you. But I predict you will quickly become the Guide and lead everyone else through. I see several meritorious promotions in your future.
World isn’t going back to boot. Once you graduate from Marine Corps boot camp, you never have to go back, or back to any other military boot camp for that matter. Do you understant that recruites?! (Yes sir!)
World is going into Recon. Every branch has thier elite force. Army, Rangers. Navy, SEALs. Marine Corps, Scout Sniper, and Recon.
The training he will go through will be right up his ally. No I don’t think it will be to hard for him. Although Recon training is no joke, very brutal and demanding. One must be very motivated, and dedicated.
Yes, i’m sure his highers will be like, wtf is this guy? and wtf did he come from? Promotion to Sgt. won’t be far off. I’m sure that a Marine with the disapline World has meritorious promotions might be possable as well. I don’t think he’s in to get highly decorated, or to get Sgt. Major one day. He’s in to end his military career on his terms the way he wants it.
Actually, he is going back to boot camp. I’ve haven’t understood this from jump start, but that’s something he’s got to do, for whatever reason.
[quote]World1187 wrote:
I appreciate the thanks, words of support, and the congratulations, gentlemen… and ladies (MsM I know you’re around).
Right now, it’s looking as if I have about 2.5 weeks left here in town before I ship. Knowing the government, that will get fucked up somehow, but I am absolutely elated in that this is the first firm date I have been given thus far. I cannot wait.
Is anyone interested to hear what I am doing training wise? It may be beneficial to some of you athletes out there, and also may have applications for bodybuilding and powerlifting purposes, though I use this “routine” strictly to prepare myself for some insane training.
World[/quote]
You know it. You do what you have to do.
Love to see your pig hunt pics, please and thank you.
Well I did something new today everyone.
To prove a point, I treaded water with a 45 pound plate over my head. That was intense, and kind of pathetic in that I lasted just 3 or 4 minutes.
Weight training in just a few hours though, that’ll be a bitch.
World
[quote]World1187 wrote:
To prove a point, I treaded water with a 45 pound plate over my head. That was intense, and kind of pathetic in that I lasted just 3 or 4 minutes.[/quote]
That actually sounds like fun. Does that make me weird?
[quote]Makavali wrote:
World1187 wrote:
To prove a point, I treaded water with a 45 pound plate over my head. That was intense, and kind of pathetic in that I lasted just 3 or 4 minutes.
That actually sounds like fun. Does that make me weird?[/quote]
It was rather fun, I discovered it is most easily done if you just jump right in with the plate in your hands, since it forces you to swim back to the surface.
World
Well tonight was marvelous. Set a PM for myself on deads-- 535x 6, and without straps, just my cheap ass velcro belt. I was stoked.
Ran about 9 miles in my last run of the day too. That was a bitch and I’m shot now. No weight training until monday evening for me though, I’m going out of town to hunt.
Thought I’d update.
Do people want me to use this as a training log until I leave to keep you up to date? Or just fuck that idea?
Your call.
World
[quote]World1187 wrote:
Do people want me to use this as a training log until I leave to keep you up to date? Or just fuck that idea?
World[/quote]
Would love to see it man
Keep posting!
Keep posting!
[quote]World1187 wrote:
Well tonight was marvelous. Set a PM for myself on deads-- 535x 6, and without straps, just my cheap ass velcro belt. I was stoked.
Ran about 9 miles in my last run of the day too. That was a bitch and I’m shot now. No weight training until monday evening for me though, I’m going out of town to hunt.
Thought I’d update.
Do people want me to use this as a training log until I leave to keep you up to date? Or just fuck that idea?
Your call.
World[/quote]
World:
Please keep posting your training, very informative and ingenious. May God hold you in the palm of his hand while you are away serving.
Don’t know you that well but appreciate the pm’s we have had and the advice you have given.
My father was career Marine and HIS flag is displayed proudly in a glass box in my home.
Two of my fathers favorite quotes before he died, they are both inscribed on the glass box that carries his flag.
“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945
“Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don’t have that problem.”
Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; 1985
Respect to you Devil Dog.
GG
Best of Luck Bro, thanks for all of your help and for helping turn me to the dark side ha!
I’m going to be so much bigger than you when you get back! Ha!
Make us proud out there.
Randizo
Well gentlemen, the time is upon us.
I have roughly 36 hours before I report to my training location and will be gone for quite sometime, at least 4 months.
My ship date was changed and I was just notified roughly six hours ago, so it comes as somewhat of a surprise to me as well.
I appreciate all of you that have voiced your support and words of encouragement. Continue to learn, to grow, and to impart your wisdom upon others.
OOH RAH!!!
World over and out.
I guess we’ll be seeing you in 4 months then!
Can’t wait.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Makavali wrote:
I guess we’ll be seeing you in 4 months then!
Can’t wait.
You aint a-kiddin’.
I hereby make a motion for this forum to “sponsor” this young man in our thoughts and prayers.
When he returns we party big time. We’ll clink syringes, shoot a huge load of ceremonial T, and get drunk on that elixir of the gods while he regales us with Tales of the Sandbox.[/quote]
Beautifully put Push. I second that wholeheartedly.
We’ll be talking via email W, I’ve had a great experience being your friend, and I know you’ll be ok. Stay down brother, and stay sharp.
ToneBone
Well fellas, I won’t be heading to the sandbox for at least 8 months. Have to do a bunch of training and similar bullshit… know what I mean?
So there’s no risk to me at all for the time being-- so it’s boring as shit.
I appreciate the preemptive good wishes though, lol.
World
[quote]will-of-iron wrote:
Don’t know you and wish you luck with anything you do but wanted to say that all this “thanks for keeping us safe” shit makes me want to puke. Why is the world “dangerous”? Because certain politicians with hidden agendas send other men into other countries to exploit them under the guise of “freedom”. Bullshit.
“The pioneers of a warless world are the young men who refuse military service.” - Einstein[/quote]
Maybe reading this will clear up a few things in your fucked up mind. If not, I highly recommend a lobotomy-- that way you can live in your ideal world in which you will have just as little a clue about life as you do now. The beauty of a lobotomy is the fact that you can’t spread your bullshit.
Read the the follwing:
ON SHEEP, WOLVES, AND SHEEPDOGS
By LTC(RET) Dave Grossman, RANGER, Ph.D.,author of “On Killing.”
Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always, even death itself. The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for? - William J. Bennett - in a lecture to theUnited States Naval Academy November 24, 1997
One Vietnam veteran, an old retired colonel, once said this to me: “Most of the people in our society are sheep. They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident.” This is true. Remember, the murder rate is six per 100,000 per year, and the aggravated assault rate is four per 1,000 per year. What this means is that the vast majority of Americans are not inclined to hurt one another.
Some estimates say that two million Americans are victims of violent crimes every year, a tragic, staggering number, perhaps an all-time record rate of violent crime. But there are almost 300 million Americans, which means that the odds of being a victim of violent crime is considerably less than one in a hundred on any given year. Furthermore, since many violent crimes are committed by repeat offenders, the actual number of violent citizens is considerably less than two million.
Thus there is a paradox, and we must grasp both ends of the situation: We may well be in the most violent times in history, but violence is still remarkably rare. This is because most citizens are kind, decent people who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep.
I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. To me it is like the pretty, blue robin’s egg. Inside it is soft and gooey but someday it will grow into something wonderful. But the egg cannot survive without its hard blue shell. Police officers, soldiers, and other warriors are like that shell, and someday the civilization they protect will grow into something wonderful.? For now, though, they need warriors to protect them from the predators.
“Then there are the wolves,” the old war veteran said, “and the wolves feed on the sheep without mercy.” Do you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it. There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial.
“Then there are sheepdogs,” he went on, “and I’m a sheepdog. I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf.”
If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath, a wolf. But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens?
What do you have then? A sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero’s path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed.
Let me expand on this old soldier’s excellent model of the sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. We know that the sheep live in denial, that is what makes them sheep. They do not want to believe that there is evil in the world. They can accept the fact that fires can happen, which is why they want fire extinguishers, fire sprinklers, fire alarms and fire exits throughout their kids’ schools.
But many of them are outraged at the idea of putting an armed police officer in their kid’s school. Our children are thousands of times more likely to be killed or seriously injured by school violence than fire, but the sheep’s only response to the possibility of violence is denial. The idea of someone coming to kill or harm their child is just too hard, and so they chose the path of denial.
The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, can not and will not ever harm the sheep. Any sheep dog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot work any other way, at least not in a representative democracy or a republic such as ours.
Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would prefer that he didn’t tell them where to go, or give them traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports in camouflage fatigues holding an M-16. The sheep would much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray paint himself white, and go, “Baa.”
Until the wolf shows up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind one lonely sheepdog.
The students, the victims, at Columbine High School were big, tough high school students, and under ordinary circumstances they would not have had the time of day for a police officer. They were not bad kids; they just had nothing to say to a cop. When the school was under attack, however, and SWAT teams were clearing the rooms and hallways, the officers had to physically peel those clinging, sobbing kids off of them. This is how the little lambs feel about their sheepdog when the wolf is at the door.
Look at what happened after September 11, 2001 when the wolf pounded hard on the door. Remember how America, more than ever before, felt differently about their law enforcement officers and military personnel? Remember how many times you heard the word hero?
Understand that there is nothing morally superior about being a sheepdog; it is just what you choose to be. Also understand that a sheepdog is a funny critter: He is always sniffing around out on the perimeter, checking the breeze, barking at things that go bump in the night, and yearning for a righteous battle. That is, the young sheepdogs yearn for a righteous battle. The old sheepdogs are a little older and wiser, but they move to the sound of the guns when needed right along with the young ones.
Here is how the sheep and the sheepdog think differently. The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the sheepdog lives for that day. After the attacks on September 11, 2001, most of the sheep, that is, most citizens in America said, “Thank God I wasn’t on one of those planes.” The sheepdogs, the warriors, said, “Dear God, I wish I could have been on one of those planes. Maybe I could have made a difference.” When you are truly transformed into a warrior and have truly invested yourself into warriorhood, you want to be there. You want to be able to make a difference.
There is nothing morally superior about the sheepdog, the warrior, but he does have one real advantage. Only one. And that is that he is able to survive and thrive in an environment that destroys 98 percent of the population. There was research conducted a few years ago with individuals convicted of violent crimes. These cons were in prison for serious, predatory crimes of violence: assaults, murders and killing law enforcement officers. The vast majority said that they specifically targeted victims by body language: slumped walk, passive behavior and lack of awareness. They chose their victims like
big cats do in Africa, when they select one out of the herd that is least able to protect itself.
Some people may be destined to be sheep and others might be genetically primed to be wolves or sheepdogs. But I believe that most people can choose which one they want to be, and I’m proud to say that more and more Americans are choosing to become sheepdogs.
Seven months after the attack on September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer was honored in his hometown of Cranbury, New Jersey. Todd, as you recall, was the man on Flight 93 over Pennsylvania who called on his cell phone to alert an operator from United Airlines about the hijacking. When he learned of the other three passenger planes that had been used as weapons, Todd dropped his phone and uttered the words, “Let’s roll,” which authorities believe was a signal to the other passengers to confront the terrorist hijackers. In one hour, a transformation occurred among the passengers - athletes, business people and parents. – from sheep to sheepdogs and together they fought the wolves, ultimately saving an unknown number of lives on the ground.
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. - Edmund Burke
Here is the point I like to emphasize, especially to the thousands of police officers and soldiers I speak to each year. In nature the sheep, real sheep, are born as sheep. Sheepdogs are born that way, and so are wolves. They didn’t have a choice. But you are not a critter. As a human being, you can be whatever you want to be. It is a conscious, moral decision.
If you want to be a sheep, then you can be a sheep and that is okay, but you must understand the price you pay. When the wolf comes, you and your loved ones are going to die if there is not a sheepdog there to protect you. If you want to be a wolf, you can be one, but the sheepdogs are going to hunt you down and you will never have rest, safety, trust or love. But if you want to be a sheepdog and walk the warrior’s path, then you must make a conscious and moral decision every day to dedicate, equip and prepare yourself to thrive in that toxic, corrosive moment when the wolf comes knocking at the door.
For example, many officers carry their weapons in church.? They are well concealed in ankle holsters, shoulder holsters or inside-the-belt holsters tucked into the small of their backs.? Anytime you go to some form of religious service, there is a very good chance that a police officer in your congregation is carrying. You will never know if there is such an individual in your place of worship, until the wolf appears to massacre you and your loved ones.
I was training a group of police officers in Texas, and during the break, one officer asked his friend if he carried his weapon in church. The other cop replied, “I will never be caught without my gun in church.” I asked why he felt so strongly about this, and he told me about a cop he knew who was at a church massacre in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1999. In that incident, a mentally deranged individual came into the church and opened fire, gunning down fourteen people. He said that officer believed he could have saved every life that day if he had been carrying his gun. His own son was shot, and all he could do was throw himself on the boy’s body and wait to die. That cop looked me in the eye and said, “Do you have any idea how hard it would be to live with yourself after that?”
Some individuals would be horrified if they knew this police officer was carrying a weapon in church. They might call him paranoid and would probably scorn him. Yet these same individuals would be enraged and would call for “heads to roll” if they found out that the airbags in their cars were defective, or that the fire extinguisher and fire sprinklers in their kids’ school did not work. They can accept the fact that fires and traffic accidents can happen and that there must be safeguards against them.
Their only response to the wolf, though, is denial, and all too often their response to the sheepdog is scorn and disdain. But the sheepdog quietly asks himself, “Do you have and idea how hard it would be to live with yourself if your loved ones attacked and killed, and you had to stand there helplessly because you were unprepared for that day?”
It is denial that turns people into sheep. Sheep are psychologically destroyed by combat because their only defense is denial, which is counterproductive and destructive, resulting in fear, helplessness and horror when the wolf shows up.
Denial kills you twice. It kills you once, at your moment of truth when you are not physically prepared: you didn’t bring your gun, you didn’t train. Your only defense was wishful thinking. Hope is not a strategy. Denial kills you a second time because even if you do physically survive, you are psychologically shattered by your fear helplessness and horror at your moment of truth.
Gavin de Becker puts it like this in Fear Less, his superb post-9/11 book, which should be required reading for anyone trying to come to terms with our current world situation: “…denial can be seductive, but it has an insidious side effect. For all the peace of mind deniers think they get by saying it isn’t so, the fall they take when faced with new violence is all the more unsettling.”
Denial is a save-now-pay-later scheme, a contract written entirely in small print, for in the long run, the denying person knows the truth on some level.
And so the warrior must strive to confront denial in all aspects of his life, and prepare himself for the day when evil comes.
If you are warrior who is legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that the bad man will not come today. No one can be “on” 24/7, for a lifetime. Everyone needs down time. But if you are authorized to carry a weapon, and you walk outside without it, just take a deep breath, and say this to yourself…“Baa.”
This business of being a sheep or a sheep dog is not a yes-no dichotomy. It is not an all-or-nothing, either-or choice. It is a matter of degrees, a continuum. On one end is an abject, head-in-the-sand-sheep and on the other end is the ultimate warrior. Few people exist completely on one end or the other.
Most of us live somewhere in between. Since 9-11 almost everyone in America took a step up that continuum, away from denial. The sheep took a few steps toward accepting and appreciating their warriors, and the warriors started taking their job more seriously. The degree to which you move up that continuum, away from sheephood and denial, is the degree to which you and your loved ones will survive, physically and psychologically at your moment of truth.