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Comment by Jerry M on June 7, 2012 at 10:12am

Thanks Dads for your good wishes and comments.  Attending one graduation is great -- attending a second is beyond amazing!  (PapaUrsa - I appreciate your vote but I don't think I deserve it, apparently all the credit goes to their SEAL Moms anayway!). HOO YAH!

Comment by PapaUrsa on June 7, 2012 at 7:21am

HOO YAH JERRY M!  My vote go to you for father of the year...congrats!!

Comment by rmnanonymous on June 5, 2012 at 10:46pm

Congratulations Jerry M!  What an honor to have two sons with what it takes to earn the SO rating.

Comment by Jerry M on June 5, 2012 at 8:58pm

To all Dads who may be attending Class 289 SQT graduation this Fri, I'll be there wearing a Navy Blue sports coat with a Double Blue Star lapel pin (in honor of both my SEAL sons)! Please introduce yourself. HOO YAH 289 (and all our SEALs)! Jerry M

Comment by Jerry M on April 23, 2012 at 5:46pm

Good luck to all Class 294 this Hell Week. Hoo Yah!

Comment by Jim on April 7, 2012 at 6:10pm

Reminder join BUD/S 294 if you have a son or encouragement.

Heard from our son today and he said they were very beat down and everyone is chaffed and shore.

Anyone else have news?

Comment by NavyDads Co-Admin, Calvin on March 30, 2012 at 5:56pm

Jim, BUDS Class 273 chose that quote for their Hell Week Shirts. The back of the shirt has highlight from the quote on it. I also use it as a tag line on another site I belong to.

Comment by Jim Miller on March 30, 2012 at 7:48am

Camo-Dad, If he has met all performance requirements and he is not injured he is good to go.  Ringing the bell or not ringing the bell will always be his choice -it's a gut check.  My prayers are with him and all those like him that have answered the call. 

My son shared this quote with me just before Hell Week.  He has since graduated SQT.

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Citizenship in a Republic,"

Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

Comment by Russell on March 30, 2012 at 7:13am

Stories from our son are the same - the instructors push the guys at all levels, looking for cracks. BUDs Prep, BO, Phase 1. From what I heard, it sounds like a higher percentage of the younger guys drop.  I would guess that the command has stats from the last couple hundred classes. They say that getting thru P-1 is 90% mental, but thats also assuming that the fitness level and commitment  are there. One of the telling video's online is the recruit that said (paraphrased here): "They can make me cold, wet, tired, hungry, miserable, but the only thing they can't do is make me ring the bell". If your son is in the top end of the group in his timed evolutions, and is committed to the concept that "quitting is not an option", then he should consider trying to power thru it.  My wife is on the NavyforMoms website, and has looked at the DOR group - there are alot of sad, unhappy, frustrated, sense of failure, posts there. Whatever your son decides, he has to be comfortable with it.

Comment by Russell J on March 30, 2012 at 4:56am

Sorry. Difference not deference.

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