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Getting away from it all (not really)
By Bull Nav
So, on Saturday morning, my son and I headed out into the wilds of Michigan (really only 4 miles or so from the house) for a Webelos II campout with Boy Scouts. The whole purpose was to get trained for the Outdoorsman Activity Badge. Pretty cool, except for the 40F temps, and the 40 mph wind gusts.
Oh, well, character building and all that.
When we got back, I figured I did not miss jack.
'Course I was wrong.
My friend Joel has stomach cancer. Drop him a note, say a prayer. Cancer sucks. I have known Joel for over 10 years, and this...sucks.
On the other hand, the SEALS kicked ass, as usual:
“One option was for the money to arrive and be ransomed,” the 61-year-old engineer from Ohio told Military Times, speaking on the condition that he remain anonymous. Another was “that they’d just get tired of me and let me loose.” A third was “some kind of military intervention,” he said. “In my mind I’d given a military intervention a one out of a hundred chance. Not that they couldn’t do it, but they’re busy and I’m not that important a fellow.”On an airstrip many miles away, however, several twin sets of Chinook helicopter rotor blades were starting to turn as about 60 of America’s most elite troops prepared to prove him wrong. Members of a task force that Military Times agreed not to name, the commandos had been hunting for the businessman since soon after he went missing. Now they were ready to act.
Wherever you are, where ever you go, we will hunt you down to the ends of the earth.
Read the article and heed.
FOAD.
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DW - no, I appreciate the comments. I am in no way or shape an evil buckeye, nor am I an OSU fan. Hell, I live not 10 miles from the Big House. No the fact that we spent the whole day outside was the ass-kicker, especially since it was 70F as late as last Thursday. The nice November weather should kick in by Thanksgiving when I will (hopefully) spend some time in the woods with my shotgun.
bull,
I spent the day at the Sharon Valley rifle range Monday in 30 degree weather......now if only this will hold through deer season.....
BTW, loved the story on the SEALS. Years ago, one of my wife's campers at the YMCA (when he was a boy) became a SEAL (when he became a man) We still see his sister to this day and he is still a SEAL and still lovin' it. Here's to him.....GET SOME!
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Pretty cool, except for the 40F temps, and the 40 mph wind gusts.
Okay, probably not the part of the post you expected coments on, but...
When I was growing up in Michigan, 40 degrees, wioth 40 mph gusts, would have bene nice November weather. So you're obviously an Ohio infiltrator. Or at least an OSU fan.
Members of a task force that Military Times agreed not to name
Not like we can't guess...