...and what they're doing looks like fun.
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U.S. Marines conduct insertion exercises from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter in the Arabian Sea, Jan. 19, 2012. The Marines are assigned to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island. The ship is supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Alan Gragg.
I'd like to find that old man that stole my 20 yo body and get it back from him.
Better the body goes than the mind.
The Judges have conferred, and the determination is in.
Foreground is artwork, background "sky" is piss poor attemt to erase background subject matter. Helicopter, and "jumper" are photo-shopped bullshit. Bullshit penalty. Loss of down, and twenty yards back.
Over-ruled.
I donno. Looks to me like a cold soak. The cold salt water soak to be followed, most probably, by a generous layer of sand grit. Then, salt and sand grit chaffing for 20 miles or so. That followed by several day/nights of no sleep, little food/water while laying in possition watching for something that might not even show up. All the while, getting eaten by bugs.
Funny aint it? How looking back on the adventure days, the times spent standing guard on empty buildings while it rained or snowed or was hot enough to melt asphalt, tend to get forgot.
PS. I know where all the time flies to when having fun. It saves up for when you're on guard duty.
And back when I was younger, more limber, and much smaller, it was fun to do that stuff and not live in a cubicle.
Guard duty was never fun.