Failure to Render Aid

Back in November a San Antonio man was convicted of failing to render aid to a friend. This story was pretty sad. Their car was re-ended on the freeway and the driver went home, leaving his passenger there to die.

This is setting a bad precedence. A Police Officer isn’t forced by law to help anyone, why should a normal person? Could this go from calling for help, to rendering first aid, to failing to help in a fight? I hope not. It’s my choice to help or not help someone. I carry a first aid kit and will help if I can. If it’s a robbery or worst, my family’s safety comes first. Once they are safe, I’ll help anyone else I can. The family comes first, always.

Have you put your life’s priorities in order? Do you know what comes first? I have mine, and it’s really simple; God, family, friends, country. Sit down, put yours in order, and then live by it.

Stay Safe,

Ben

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Seasons Greeting

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! May you have a blessed and safe season.

News Media Madness

Jake Tapper at ABC recently tweeted “I would legitimately like to know if any tweeps who live near the Colorado supermax worry about terrorist attacks.”

Are you kidding? Sounds like he couldn’t find some “Expert” to say the Supermax Prison in Colorado would become a legitimate terrorist target, so he is looking for citizens to create a fear so we will watch his “special report.”

This is what the legitimate news media is coming to. It’s really sad. Just watch news reports with a skeptic eye and look for the source of what is said.

I no longer watch any news, because what takes them 10 minutes to report on, you can read the facts on their own web site in two paragraphs.

Stay Safe,

Ben

White House Party Crashers!

This entire situation is almost laughable, if it wasn’t so serious.

After doing high-level security for over a year in Iraq, I have a pretty good idea how this happened. It went something like this:

• These two weren't on the guest list
• A Secret Service Agent tried to stop them
• They made a scene arguing
• A member of the White House Staff said let them in
• The Agent decided it would be better at the moment (normally because the person taht said let them in is threatening their job)
• Unfortunately these people will yell, scream, throw a fit, and threaten (and try) to take your job. It does happen, everyone from Sgts. to Generals have yelled at me for enforcing security regulations.

Unfortunately the Agent has been put on leave, even-though the person on the President’s staff that ordered the Agent to violate security should be fired.

It’s hard to explain unless you have done it. When you work for a good company and client, they will defer to you because you are the expert. But other companies and clients will micro manage you and then violate security not even knowing that they are doing something wrong, and not caring because they think it it’s their job or responsibility.

Now, congress needs to stay out of this situation. Secret Service knows what they are doing; they are the best of the best. It probably took Secret Service 15 minutes to figure out what happened and to correct it. They have been protecting the President for over 100 years. It will take a Congressional Committee months to figure out what happened.

Congress, IT’S NOT YOUR JOB, maybe you should be reading the Health Care bill instead of investigating something you have no knowledge of, legal authority in, or time to do.

Stay Safe,

Ben

PS Maybe it’s time we vote these clowns in congress out and get some new ones.

A New Greatest Generation

No Way!

This is not the next "Greatest Generation." People are talking about it, but we are not. I'm part of this generation of soldiers who fights terrorism, and will continue to do so. We are better trained, equipped, and experienced then the soldiers in WWII. The war they waged was more fearsome then what is happening now.

I was told by a WWII Marine that I was part of the greatest Marines ever, and I told him no. We argued about who would buy who a drink that night and shared "war stories." I fought in Iraq during the invasion; he fought on Iwo Jima, Saipan, and Okinawa. The tenacity and resolve those Marines had were 1,000 times more then what I needed to survive and win in Iraq. They are still (and probably always will be) the Greatest Generation.

I know they are the greatest, because I read their books and reports to learn how to fight. About what equipment needed to do, and about leadership, marksmanship, and teamwork. They paved the way for what I was able to create. In fact the last book I read before going to battle was "Guns Up!" It was about a Marine Machine Gunner in WWII.

So I defer to the WWII Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors, and Marines as the Greatest Generation, and would like others to stop branding me as the greatest generation, I don't even come close.

Ben