Coach DeCristofaro
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@CoachHowieD
Coach D 👨🏻🏈 🏋🏻♂️ follower of Jesus
Things I learned to do in the Military that still bug my wife today: 1. Show up unreasonably early to appointments. 2. Finish my meal in 180 seconds. 3. Respond to her questions with "Roger that" 4. Back into EVERY parking space. 5. Take off my hat when I enter a building.
Nothing says trust me about socialism quite like a millionaire actor who made his fortune through capitalism. If Mark Ruffalo is so concerned about wealth inequality, he can start by giving away his own money. Until then, spare us the economic revolution speeches!
🇺🇸You won’t find Heroes is Washington, they’re not in Congress. You can find them on the battlefield, exhausted and hungry, hoping to make it home to the country they love. They defend our nation with dignity and honor. If only Politicians had the same resolve.🇺🇸
Ranger School has a brutal ~62-day course with a first-try pass rate around 20-30% historically; Veit aced all phases on attempt #1 This young man deserves a shout out Army Pfc. Mace Veit knew completing four of the Army’s most distinguished training courses in less than six months, including the rigors of Ranger School, would be tough. Constant testing. Brutal fitness standards. Lack of sleep. He knew he was ready for all that. What Veit didn’t expect was the growing number of funny looks he’d get from fellow soldiers as he moved from school to school. “I definitely have explained the path of my career, I guess you could say, more times than I can count, to students and instructors,” Veit told Task & Purpose this week, laughing slightly at his unusual position. “It is pretty crazy, because a lot of people are like, ‘Oh, how’d you get all these schools? I’ve been waiting 10 years to get this one’ or something.” On Friday, Veit will graduate from Pathfinder School at Fort Benning, Georgia, and, as a 19-year-old private first class, he will pin on his third hard-to-get skill badge — and that’s on top of his Ranger tab. After graduating high school a year ago, Veit has been to boot camp and advanced individual training as a cavalry scout (where he was an honor graduate), and then beginning in January, he attended Ranger School, Airborne Jump School, Air Assault, and Pathfinder.
Finished 30 years of teaching/31 years of coaching today. . . pretty good profession with lots of great people. Looking forward to coaching the 2026 Red Terrors!
Who is the greatest player you ever watched live in high school, what sport, what high school and what player.
When I was a Sergeant First Class my platoon was using Clifford Range at Ft. Stewart. I went up into the range tower and the target operator was my Drill Sergeant. He was a Staff Sergeant when he was my DS and now we were both SFCs. We had a great talk and he was happy as hell with how I turned out. It was weird at first because he was an absolute tyrant as a drill sergeant and now he was in “proud dad” mode. Every time I have an NCO that gets selected to be a Drill Sergeant I tell them how jealous I am that the Army has chosen them to shape the next generation of Soldiers.
