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“Enlisted men are stupid, but extremely cunning and sly, and bear considerable watching.” U.S. Army’s Officer Guide, 1863.

I don’t take offence at the above quote being enlisted myself, in fact I agree with most of it except being stupid. It’s almost in the enlisted men’s job description to keep officers on their toes by being cunning and sly and to show them the difference in book smarts and street smarts whenever the opportunity arises.

One of my most memorable demonstrations of cunning and sly involved myself and my leading petty officer when we matched wits with our Platoon Commander and assistant Platoon Commander over a game of Jeopardy on TV.

My leading petty officer Chuck and I drank rum and cokes together and watched Jeopardy often during training trips we took during Platoon Workups. Being the Platoon Chief, the senior enlisted, and Chuck being the second senior enlisted, we roomed together and would patiently wait for Jeopardy to begin each night we were not working.

So addicted to seeing who was smarter, Chuck and I would play Jeopardy by telephone when we were home, back at the Team, in Virginia Beach almost every night. Neither one of us were very good, very smart, but we enjoyed getting the occasional answer correct and hurling a few insults at each other over our rum and cokes.

My Platoon Commander was a graduate of Blue Canoe U, the Naval Academy, and he was sharp. My assistant Commander was no slouch either and exceptionally educated while Chuck and I cheated our way through high school and struggled to spell college correctly.

While we all respected and liked each other there was always that pesky officer/enlisted thing between us and education being the bigee. Chuck and I were dumb enlisted pukes.

That all changed on a training trip to North Carolina when my Platoon attended a shooting school there.


As usual Chuck and I poured a rum and coke and turned the channel to Jeopardy. Almost as soon as the show started I said “let’s go see the O’s and play with them.”

Our two officers roomed together also and soon Chuck and I were seated in their hotel room. We offered the O’s a drink and began discussing that days training we accomplished and what we were doing for training the next day. A few minutes later I turned on Jeopardy casually as we all continued to talk.

It didn’t take long before Chuck and I began nonchalantly answering questions on the show while we continued our training discussion. Science, Literature, World History, Word Origins, Sports. You name it we ran the categories answering each question correctly to the amazement of the officers who never had a chance to answer a single one Chuck and I were so fast.

As the question was asked for Final Jeopardy, Chuck and I discussed the possible answer to the insanely hard question while to officers had no clue. We agreed on the answer and it was the CORRECT ONE. With a HOOT of excitement and a High Five between us, Chuck and I left the stunned officers and went back to our room without saying another word to them.

It’s that cunning and sly part of the enlisted man that keeps officers on their toes and wondering. All the book smarts in the world can’t prepare an officer for the wrath of the under educated enlisted man.

It also helps when Jeopardy makes a mistake and shows the same show they did the night before!

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Less than thirty days out from the April Course beginning and outside of the spring touch up of the property we are ready to go.

The new Kill House is set. The Race Track is set.

The only worry we have now is warm weather that is warming the local water. The April Class is a toughie from the cold water for the students. The cold water is a delight for the Instructors because we don’t have to get in it.

Warm water is depressing for us at Extreme SEAL Experience. Very depressing, so we’ll just have to find something equally miserable for our April Class and that is never hard. Sly and Cunning.

I can take a few more in the April and May courses but HURRY UP and get signed up...







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