re: Am I the only one NOT outwardly showing Trump Support outta...well...fear?

I don't do campaign signs ever, but I also won't shy away from supporting the president. I don't comment on every morons anti-Trump Facebook post though. They'll never learn.

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I'm not a coward.

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I get it. The lunatic Left will break stuff.

I've never been a yard sign, car sticker, logo apparel person. (Excepting maybe my Pabst Blue Ribbon and Dixie Beer T-shirts.) Which now thinking about it are probably too red, white, and blue or racist to get me a pass from the Communist mobs.)

Australian secret ballot and all that. It's my business who I vote for. It's secret for many of the reasons you mentioned.

CQB should be enough to silence any detractors or down-voters. Got nothing to prove to me. Appreciate your service.

IMO a political opinion is best kept to yourself because there’s really no good that can come out of sharing it, especially in the form of a sign or bumper sticker. Not like it’s gonna influence any undecided voters and it’s not worth unnecessarily pissing someone off and having them try and bring you harm.

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I need to know your MOS before I believe any of that shite.

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I don't believe I need to explain jack nor s*** to you, Lake. Believe me or don't.

But I will anyway Because 1) I might be drunk 2) I likes to brag and 3)I get you drift.The internet is full of posers. But I won't dox myself.

I dropped out of college at 20 and enlisted in the USNR as a SeaBee - Builders Unit - in Austin, Texas. After A school in Gulfport I was assigned toCamp Mayberry back in Austin. The next Fall I enrolled in Texas A&M's Construction Science Program (my Daddy was already a Civil Engineering prof there).

I graduated in summer of '99 with a BS in Con. Sci and a minor in Psych. I was commissioned as an Ensign and sent back to Gulfport and assigned to NMCB 133 (that's Naval Mobile Construction Battalion One Three Three for you Lake).

In November 2001 I arrived at Camp Rhino, Afghanistan. We were under constant fire while attempting to build the remote semblance of infrastructure (in the undeniable a-hole of the world) as well as barracks, bathrooms, gun emplacement, sewage, electricity and running water. Most inconsiderate of them I thought. But SeaBees - We build! We fight! So we fought. Shooting wildly in every direction as only 2 weeks of combat training can teach you. But we got better and added running escort on convoys to our list of duties. Scary stuff. Quite a few casualties.

Mid deployment we were sent to Guantanamo to make Camp X-Ray operational again at Roosevelt Roads. I'll let you figure out why.

Tired of being placed in reactive circumstances instead of proactive, I applied for a new Special Operations unit called the Seabee Engineer Reconnaissance Teams (SERTs) developed by 1st NCD. I was deployed to Iraq in 2003 where we were ran Engineering recon intell depending on the immediate tactical situation, transportation (roads, rails, bridges) and other infrastructure physical-condition and load-bearing tolerance assmnt, terrain surveys and sight selections for adequate follow-on facility construction, and locating enemy resources left behind for friendly exploitation. They didn't always wanna just give up their pea gravel. So we persuaded them (Actually an F-18 or a Cobra gunship did most the persuading. Eloquent basterds those guys).

The purpose of our intell was to keep 1st Marine Division moving along under heavy combat engagements.

My team and another were actually the first SeaBees to directly engage with enemy hostiles since WW2. A fact I am very proud of. HOOYAH!

THAT WAS MY LAST field trip in harms way with the SeaBees. Unless you count New Orleans after Katrina. I retired a Leuitenant 2006.

Heres a SERT team during training in San Clemente, CA(?). SERTs was disbanded and made a Marine Unit in 2013.



What I do now is my own concern.

J/K. I'm doing PhD work in Psych and flip houses.

It's your vote that counts. Carry on!

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I work in corporate America and one of my coworkers called me racist a few years ago when I said I did support Trump.

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Now this sort of thing I wouldn't have tolerated. There would have been a confrontation with me telling them what I thought of that and an invitation to accompany me to HR to witness the complaint I'm filing against them.

same here die hard MAGA but not about to have my property destroyed and my family targeted. I'll do my thing at the voting booth

I live in Gainesville. Right in the downtown area. Showing Trump support here would get me in trouble quick. I'm in the Duck Pond area which is kind of a historic district. So it has really rich and dirt poor people..but all have Biden signs.

Anywhere else in Florida Trump shite is everywhere. Here I'd get stabbed.

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If you say so.

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Says the internet tough guy.

How many tours in the ME did you serve?