About

God determines who walks into your life....it's up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go. "Destiny is the sum of a person's chances at making a positive effect on history. True love is the intertwined destiny of two people." I believe in destiny ... I DO NOT know mine ... I've /seen/ true love ... I'm not sure it's part of my destiny. I'm passionate about the United States Military and the God given calling and privilege that we as Americans have to serve in public service. I believe that there is a category of person that is what might be called a Warrior-Poet ... these people have a responsibility to lead and train the future generations of part time soldiers to be temporary professionals. I believe that practice makes perfect and that somethings deserve to be perfected.

Education

• ULC Online, Honorary Doctorate of Motivation
• American Military Institute
• Villanova University
• Starfleet Academy
• Starfleet Marines
• American Military Institute
• Eastern Washington University
• Bremerton Christian

Favorite saying

• ""Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” ~Theodore Roosevelt Don Juan: There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love. My father once told me: if you get hit in the head every day with a 20 lbs trout you'll still never get used to it. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. -M. Kathleen Casey Most people miss opportunity because it usually shows up dressed in overalls and looks like works. ~Thomas Edison "Everything is possible for him who believes." -Mark 9:23 Drill Instructor: Recruit Devine we don't know if you're very brave or very stupid but we don't seem to be getting through to you!! ME: Sir! This recruit knows nothing about being stupid but my mother scares me and you have NOTHING on my mother SIR! If you're going through hell Keep on going, don't slow down If you're scared, don't show it You might get out Before the devil even knows you're there ~Rodney Atkins Douleur s'estompe, belles femmes comme cicatrices, gloire durer ternellement!!! "There's an easy way to do things, then there's the right way to do things. With that said, anything worth doing is worth doing right." ~John Greene "Do it /that way/ BECAUSE I SAID SO!" ~R Lee Ermy A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~Martin Luther King, Jr The world is an indelicate place and I refuse to sugar coat reality for ignorant Americans who blindly support the obiliteration of our International credibility for reasons they'd be dumbfounded by. A very famous economist once said: "life is brutish, short and harsh" only when someone transitions from that theory to the facts behind it can they see and understand true beauty and nobillity ... those that do not know this who fight are mere murders ... only the true warriors have recognized this ~Patrick H. Devine October 2011 The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is *never* to KILL THE ENEMY just to be killing!l But rather to make him do what you want him to do."