DavidGTerrell
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@DavidGTerrell1
Dad, Parent, Engineer, Analyst, Historian, Teacher, Veteran, Freemason, and much more. But always a disciple of Christ and a Latter-day Saint.
You treat an entire profession like garbage for decades. You go out of your way to call them civilians. You refuse to put defensive systems on their ships and send them into active combat defenseless. The young, motivated people all quit. Then you’re shocked when what’s left doesn’t meet your standards. So you yell at the survivors to make themselves “combat efficient” on zero training budget. You yell at the old people “you want to be taken seriously, get your asses in shape” No, Blake. The U.S. Merchant Marine isn’t “fat old boozy pirates.” We have young, fit professionals doing the most mentally demanding offshore work on the planet. They just refuse to work for the Navy. Because of exactly this attitude from Naval Officers like you. Let’s go Blake. Let’s go @FarvaPrice. Get out of that bubble and come with me to the US Merchant Marine Academy, let’s visit @MaritimeCollege, come up to Mass Maritime. Come see all the not fat, not old, not drunk, not lazy, high IQ midshipmen doing more physically demanding, more academically demanding work than USNA at the top of their game who refuse to work for the Navy because ya’ll give us zero respect. Or we can go visit the fit, young, groomed, motivated Federal Service Academy @UsmmaO midshipmen floating and under fire aboard five USMM ships in the Persian Gulf right now because your DDGs refuse to leave the safety of the Arabian gulf to go in and escort them out. Or I can introduce you to the mothers of those young midshipmen - merchant Mariners yes but also Navy Reserve brothers like you - who are on their knees praying everyday your Navy will do their legal obligations and go protect their sons and daughters. What Blake. What exactly do you think those young mids are going to tell their classmates when (or IF) they get back to campus? You think they are going to have nice things to say about the Navy that cut tail and ran out of the Persian Gulf without them?? F YOU F ALL YOU NAVY PRICKS
From North Western Indian Ocean: An Indian Navy ship escorting an India flagged LPG carrier after it transitted Hormuz.
Rob Schneider says the United States “must restore the military draft for our nation’s young people” amid the ongoing war with Iran: “Being a citizen of the United States gives us unparalleled Freedoms and opportunities that are the envy of the world. However, these Freedoms that we cherish do not come without a cost.” variety.com/2026/film/news…
