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This is one of my favorite older videos (2009).
For all the '20 appointees feeling the nerves about Plebe Summer, to the disappointed candidates who are pursuing paths B or C, to the '21 hopefuls starting to wrestle with the application steeplechase:
Effort=Results, though your results may take you in surprising directions. I have a piece of brass with those words engraved, given to me by the sailors at my first duty station, in my first division. It has been on every desk of mine since. Do the work, reap the results, be open and adaptive to life's curveballs.
I like this video because it shows the faces of people doing hard work, mentally and physically. The Blues don't wear G-suits, so when they are making faces, they are tensing their muscles - hard - to keep blood in all the right places and not pass out. They must be 100% in sync with their teammates, totally focused on the task at hand, because lives can be lost.
Just thinking about all the wannabees and gonnabees and families out there today.
For all the '20 appointees feeling the nerves about Plebe Summer, to the disappointed candidates who are pursuing paths B or C, to the '21 hopefuls starting to wrestle with the application steeplechase:
Effort=Results, though your results may take you in surprising directions. I have a piece of brass with those words engraved, given to me by the sailors at my first duty station, in my first division. It has been on every desk of mine since. Do the work, reap the results, be open and adaptive to life's curveballs.
I like this video because it shows the faces of people doing hard work, mentally and physically. The Blues don't wear G-suits, so when they are making faces, they are tensing their muscles - hard - to keep blood in all the right places and not pass out. They must be 100% in sync with their teammates, totally focused on the task at hand, because lives can be lost.
Just thinking about all the wannabees and gonnabees and families out there today.