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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWounded Bear
(58,440 posts)He may or may not have combat experience, but for those with PTSD from combat, thunderstorms can be hell.
underpants
(182,274 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,890 posts)At 7 seconds in the thunder sets off and he is visibly shaken he then goes inside.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)maybe only a Lance Corporal. Probably only been in for a couple of years. May or may not have been in Afghanistan.
Getting the White House gig is a pretty big deal, not just everybody qualifies.
underpants
(182,274 posts)He turned it down. He wanted to go hard core. He saw a lot in Iraq. Bad stuff.
His grandfather (also a Marine) was beside himself when heard that hed turned down the WH. Not because of the prestige but as he told me, I looked him right in the eyes and said Do you have any idea how many women a guy like you can get in DC!?!? - I cleaned that up a bit.
babylonsister
(170,963 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)Not much traffic there anyway, with all the rain.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)hopefully there is a protocol where he can stand it inside the door in threatening weather like that. Or maybe just coincidentally, the President left for elsewhere in the White House.
Sympthsical
(8,935 posts)Nope! Pivot. Nope! Door. Nope! Sidle sidle sidle.
eleny
(46,166 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)I was on a car ferry 'twixt Delaware and Cape May New Jersey, no visible land.
People casually milling about on open deck during big lightning storm.
Very big, tall, heavy lightning bold on ship. All the many area bolts just went right to the rod.
Asked a crew member of what the risk was. He simply said, 'there's never been any problem.'
Talitha
(6,477 posts)To me it looked like he followed a well-practiced standard safety procedure.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Bayard
(21,805 posts)But, a very dignified exit.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,119 posts)I think Gen. Patton said, "The idea is not to die for your country. The idea is to make some poor fool die for his country."
dreamland
(964 posts)The marine made a nice exit.
twodogsbarking
(9,306 posts)Couldn't wait.
Snackshack
(2,540 posts)Strike.
The sound was less then a second behind the flash. Good move on his part.
TomWilm
(1,832 posts)underpants
(182,274 posts)So yeah