By: Marshall Bowen In the exclusive realm of the Marine Scout Snipers, the Hunter of Gunmen Tooth, or H.O.G. Tooth, is the most idolized item that one can possess. It is the projectile portion from a .308 caliber round fired from the M40A1 sniper rifle. Before you can be presented with the H.O.G Tooth you […]
If I were to summarize my life’s philosophy in one phrase, it would ‘This too shall pass.” There are 28,251 days in the average human lifespan. On my shelf right now, I have a notebook with a piece of paper in it. The paper has a big square divided into tiny little blocks. It’s 52
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The Naval Special Warfare program for students who have been successfully screened into a special program and are awaiting formal training is called SCRUFT Duty. We were Screened Candidates Reported and Undergoing Physical Training. Hey, it’s hard to make an acronym that long make sense. It’s pronounced ‘Scruff.’I spent six months in SCRUFTLand. We got
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People like to say that they are killing time.“Oh, I’m at the mall, you know… Just killing time.”It doesn’t work that way. Time kills you.There are 28,251 days in the average human lifespan. What you do with them is up to you, but when the clock strikes midnight on that final day you no longer
I just got back from a trek to the Base Camp of Mt. Everest. Our group had one guide named Pema Sherpa and three porters.Of course I’d heard about the Sherpas of the Himalayas, but this was the first time I’d ever spent time with them. Over the next two weeks they were part of
So many people get caught up in the conventional means, the accepted route; that they lose sight of the actual goal and instead focus myopically on doing it the way it has always been done. They hope that doing so will somehow bring them to stumble upon their goal somewhere down the road.If the conventional
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“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.” – Daniel Goleman; Vital Lies, Simple Truths.In ‘Vital
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Was it worth it? I am haunted by the idea of time passing by unused. The idea that I could look back on a period of my life and remember nothing significant about it terrifies me. I know a self-made millionaire who was homeless at one point in his life. I saw a guy finish