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The Stanley Cup at the end of the Tampa Bay Lightning boat parade. That'll Buff Out. Party on Garth!
 

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My brother (right) with the intact Stanley Cup sometime in the 80s:
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A couple of the Red Wings lived in his neighborhood, and he was/is good friends with one of them and partied with them frequently. I’m sports clueless, so I have no idea if the other guy in the photo is a player or just some rando.

(Lest you laugh at my brother’s “look,” he was working undercover narcotics in Detroit at the time and needed to look the part. At least, in this photo, he’s not wearing a tank top and gold chains.)
 
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Love how the Cup makes its rounds. A trophy for all to share. Hard for a m/w to be in narcotics...in any era. I tip my hat to him! Sign him up for the LE thread!
 
VelveteenR said:
My brother (right) with the intact Stanley Cup sometime in the 80s:
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A couple of the Red Wings lived in his neighborhood, and he was/is good friends with one of them and partied with them frequently. I’m sports clueless, so I have no idea if the other guy in the photo is a player or just some rando.

(Lest you laugh at my brother’s “look,” he was working undercover narcotics in Detroit at the time and needed to look the part. At least, in this photo, he’s not wearing a tank top and gold chains.)
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Patrol vs. narcotics
Notice I say versus as opposed to one unit fighting crime. Patrol & Narcotics are completely separate units, siloed, as one would say nowadays with the same mission??
Let's look it at:
1st experience was with a perp, Irish as Paddy's pig, handcuffed in the back of the car after being ‘controlled with the baton’ as was the lexicon of the day was, stating he was on the job! Well after a stint in the arrest processing cell, his boss showed up & indeed, he was one of us. I think he learned his lesson messing with the XX Precinct.
Next was a Sergeant. He was formally undercover in Queens. His face, I'll never forget it, his face was plastic, like a burn victim. No eyebrows. In those days, the job sent Sgts. to a command for 6 months so they could make all their mistakes, then transfer them into their ‘hook’ commands, cushy assignments. Obviously we, the cops, messed with them as they had no idea of patrol coming from specialized units. He was undercover in Queens, took on the Colombian’s for a 50K deal but the job only authorized 38K...so he shorted the Columbians ’ 12K…& did the deal!! Robbed them...Real ballzy M/F to say the least!
So he got promoted to Sgt. & sent to our central Brooklyn command. For 1 day, cause we had shots fired in a lobby of a building, at 0730, & let me say, you haven’t been in LE until you smelled gunpowder in a lobby...not the range...but in a lobby… at 0730 hrs, anyway a perp and a cop got shot & ended up in the same ER..(bad idea) & somehow the Sergeant’s name made it onto Channel 7 Eyewitness News. He was gone the next day. As it should've been. There was no reason to send him out on patrol after his U/C stint. Did the job make a mistake?? Nah…??
Narcotics…a special unit.
Next time I dealt with them was as a Lt. in a shots fired by them at a bank robbery location. “They said” they followed a perp from JFK with no luggage to a bank in my command where he robbed it , & they fired x shots at the perp, unhit & under arrest. I checked the Narcotics perp/ I mean cop’s gun & it was 1 round off. Their boss showed up & said, “He misloaded:....Uh, ...OK

Last time was in upper Manhattan where a U/C let 16 rounds off at no one! He was blown up because the apartment had 2 doors, a prewar apt. 1 door for the servants, opposite the elevator, where the drug dealer put a camera, and the other, the proper entrance. Needless to say, the perp got the jump on the Narcotics U/C who unloaded his auto while lying on his back, pushing away from the door… at no one.
They were Bronx Narcotics, wouldn’t take a case to the Bronx DA.(anti-cop)..always Federal… The perps would cry when they realized they were going to 26 Federal Plaza, not 1 PP.
Narcotics…..very, very special people...

PS: forgot about the time Narcotics brought in XX perps into the precinct. The Sarge said xx perps under, as the Lt. on the Desk I said OK. Then one of his detectives ran up to him & engaged in an animated conversation. I said. "What's up? The Sarge said. XX
perps-one who is a CI" Narcotics speak for meaning they lost a perp which would trigger a massive response with discipline all around...for a crackhead.... I said, OK....xx perps -one, Narcotics...every uniformed bosses' nightmare...Narcotics...Run away if you can!-LOL
 
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Wishful said:
Hard for a m/w to be in narcotics...in any era. I tip my hat to him!
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He was undercover most of his early years (it takes effort to look this good):

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Later, he worked white-collar crime (brought Kwame Kilpatrick to trial) and posed as a 14-year-old on the Internet for a number of years. After three attempts, he finally retired from the FBI a few years ago, but I can tell he still misses it.
 
A career lots of people grow up dreaming about. I read every book the library had on any and all facets of law enforcement--federal, state, and local. Didn't matter. If the library had it, I read it.

I figured the USN would bridge the years between high school and the age at which time I could apply for a job. It turned out to be a long bridge and I was in my 40s when I retired. Not too old per se, but too broken up to do most LE jobs.

The stones it must take to work undercover in any venue have got to be huge.
 
Smart dude. Maybe in tomorrow's episode he'll tell us what he's doing since the Marines no longer have tanks.
 
From the USNA website admissions page:

"You will arrive for Plebe Summer, the rigorous yet exhilarating initiation to the Academy, as a bright-eyed and bushy tailed high school graduate, and by the time you throw your hat in the air at graduation, you are fully prepared to be a leader of competence, character, compassion and ready to take on the world."

Love this. One might at first glance wonder who in the world wrote that for the admissions page. I wonder however, who has allowed it to stay.

But, I'm happy they did. Old school adjectives are cool with me.
 
Devil Doc said:
"You will arrive for Plebe Summer, the rigorous yet exhilarating initiation to the Academy, as a bright-eyed and bushy tailed high school graduate, and by the time you throw your hat in the air at graduation, you are fully prepared to be a leader of competence, character, compassion and ready to take on the world."
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That's hilarious, but who would apply if the truth were told? At USMA, I believe it reads:

You will arrive for Plebe Summer, the rigorous yet exhilarating initiation to the Academy, as a bright-eyed and bushy tailed high school graduate, and by the time you throw your hat in the air at graduation, you will be a jaded inmate of the gray prison, fully prepared to take on any and all paperwork assigned to you with gosh darn enthusiasm.
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Check out the paint job on the barrel of the 5' 54 on the USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115) in the Coral Sea. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Daniel Serianni. Taken from the U.S. Navy Facebook page) The ship's motto, Courageous to the End is the writing.

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