Thursday, September 23, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Beach Days....
Beautiful Day, Cute girls, Sparkling water, what more could you ask for.... Pictures are of Olivia and Brianna my niece from Az.
Navy Seals/Surf Passage
Ok I know Navy seals are not "Marin news" but we were at Coronado the other day and the Navy seal recruits were there. These are the guys that want to be Navy Seals but have to go through the grueling training to see if they can hack it. It was the coolest thing I have seen! 
Wow is all I can say, I'm amazed at the endurance they have, I guess thats why they are the best. So just to try and explain some of these pictures and what they were doing: They had this nasty stinky inlet ( it seriously smelled like a sewer) that they would have to lay down and do their leg lifts/pushups/situps in. They had groups of maybe 8 in these rafts that they would have to take over the rocks , into the water, back over the rocks and then various excise's/drills over and over again without a break. You could see the fatigue on these guys faces, sometimes they would stumble and barely recover. We met a wife of one of these guys and she was telling us they do this like nonstop for at least 3 hours at a time, when we got there they had been drilling for an hour and a half. This was their second week and "Amber"(the wife) told us they started out with 200 guys and they were down to 100 and this particular exercise was called surf passage. It was funny because two of the D.I.'s stopped her and asked who her husband was and she wouldn't tell them! They found out and kind of harassed her husband a little. They had the platoon waving at her and shouting her name during the drills, it was pretty comical, but a great way to show their sense of humor too. She was pretty embarrassed but it was neat to see!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
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