Posted on 05/20/2012 6:32:39 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
As a career Marine and then Army special operator I would tell him “Rum Sodomy and the Lash are the only true naval traditions” LOL! Good luck to him and tell him whatever he does when he is in BUDS he should keep reminding himself that quitters end up as boatswain’s mates. Scraping and painting isn’t really very glamorous.
Another factor: as a Naval Special Warfare officer, he would only be an “operator” (an actual shooter in a platoon) for a few years, before being ranked out. As an enlisted SEAL, he could be an operator in a platoon for most of his career.
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