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I'd like to address bitterwhiteguy for a bit. First of all, I haven't been around to read all his musings on Shaka Smart over the 6 years Smart was the head coach, so I don't have that bit of scarring to deal with - which I would have if I had bothered to read his stuff during that time, because I was done with Smart midway through year 2, and only saw confirmation of what I'd seen up to that point for the next 4 1/2 years. bitterwhiteguy and I have very different takes on being a fan and follower of the team. bitterwhiteguy - at least what I've read and heard on his podcasts - likes to pontificate from the perspective of if he was running the program. Nothing wrong with that. Lots of fans do exactly the same kind of thing, whether it's running the program, playing as quarterback, being the playcaller, what have you. Heck, I do it, too. But I tend to prefer to try to put myself inside the coaches shoes, figure out what they're thinking, what their priorities are, how they're approaching the team/game, and then come to grips with it as a fan. I find it relieves some of the frustration that thinking as if you're the head person and what you would do instead produces in people, although it's certainly not perfect. I'd also emphasize that everyone needs to figure out their own way of being a fan. I'm not telling you how to follow sports. I'm simply explaining a fundamental dichotomy I see between BWG and me. BWG feels strongly Beard needs to run a better offense. He feels like Beard needs to do a better job of managing the roster for the future. He feels like Beard runs off too many players. You see elements of all of these in the above post. These are BWG's priorities. He is entitled to them. Now I will shift the perspective to Beard, and talk about how misplaced they are (which to BWG's credit, he acknowledges in this post: https://bitterwhiteguy.substack.com/p/shooting-from-the-offseason-a-review?utm_source=%2Fprofile%2F15571326-bitterwhiteguy&utm_medium=reader2&s=r Beard's identity is built around defense. It always has been. It always will be. If someone is expecting Beard to start running secondary breaks off of made baskets, they're kidding themselves. He's not going to value the kinds of players he would have to recruit to build that kind of team. He's not going to field offenses that give players a ton of freedom to create. He's going to TALK like he will, and he might even want to in his mind, but his defensive proclivities, his need to micromanage, and his severe allergic reactions to poor shooting and turnovers will never allow him. If that sounds like a frustrating future for you as a Texas fan, you should take Clayton Williams' advice, sit back and relax, and learn to enjoy it. Playing time at Texas will be dictated by how well can you defend switching on screens. As a player, upon reaching the 40 acres you will enter a brainwashing tube, so that when you come out, every time you address the media or fans you will talk about how the team's identity is built on defense. If the media does too much fawning of a player during press conferences regarding their offensive proclivities, either during a game or referring to their career, Beard will swiftly interject to say something about how they don't turn the ball over, or how good they played on defense. It's practically like clockwork. Both Tre Mitchell and Andrew Jones had issues earning more minutes - specifically early in the season for Jones - because they weren't playing well enough on defense. BWG wants to argue how Texas needs shooters on this roster. I don't disagree with him. @shadow_operative who I have 1000x more respect for as a basketball analysis than BWG, has made that very point several times. But what I'd argue is what's the point of bringing in a shooter if they can't be effective on switches the way Beard demands (And he DEMANDS it. Loudly, vociferously, in your face style. He is very comfortable making the people around him feel uncomfortable). Because they are simply not going to see the floor enough to make a difference. They're going to make Beard unhappy when they're out on the floor, and they're going to be miserable playing at Texas. Honestly, that's Mosley. He's a very good shooter, although it's unclear how it translates to the Power 6 level. What's undeniable is he's not all that great of an athlete, which makes it harder to envision him getting in Beard's good graces enough for anyone involved to be happy. The idea that Tyrese Hunter is Marcus Carr - as @HtownHorn has already alluded to in many fewer words than me - is ludicrous. Carr is a better shooter with a better midrange game. Carr is 3" taller. Carr is several years older and better physically developed. Carr also can't take his guy off the dribble and consistently get into the paint. Hunter can. Carr can't dunk the ball. Hunter can with ease. Carr isn't the on the ball defender Hunter is. Carr is not necessarily a weakness, but Hunter has quick twitch hands and excellent anticipation on and off the ball. People constantly talk about defenses sagging and going under screens with poor shooting teams. And you know what? That's a legitimate gripe. But Hunter is the quickest PG we've had since TJ Ford, who also couldn't shoot from outside worth a crap. I am NOT saying Hunter is as good as TJ Ford. He's nowhere close. Ford was Allen Iverson quick. That's simply not a bar Hunter is going to achieve. What I am saying is that Hunter can still put pressure on defenses by taking defenders off the dribble and getting to the basket in ways Carr couldn't, no matter what defense is being employed. I would argue on offense that was UT's BIGGEST weakness last year - the inability to take defenders off the dribble. Bringing in Rice, Morris, Dillon Mitchell, and Hunter addresses that in a HUGE way. Sure, someone is going to have to hit some threes, but being able to drive the basket, and either kick, pass to another player under or around the basket, or draw the foul/get inside the paint points is going to feel like a revelation after watching the offense last year, where it felt like scoring inside the paint was against the rules. Oh, and we'll actually see some players dunk with some regularity now, too, rather than all the missed bunnies from last year. Sure, Carr and Allen still won't be able to, but Rice/Morris/Mitchell/Hunter all can. Mitchell will be one of the best dunkers in all of college basketball as a true freshman. The last thing is roster construction, which BWG goes into detail regarding Hunter. Let's be really clear about this. Beard doesn't give a shit about roster construction for the future. If that's the hill BWG chooses to die on, I wish him and his torn out entrails god speed. The man is proud of the job he did at a series of short term jobs where roster construction on the fly was part of what made him successful. When you hear him talking about the transfer portal and NIL, he's the br'er rabbit about to be thrown in the br'er patch. Probably Chris Beard's greatest strength - and he has a lot of them - is his overriding sense of urgency. His unrelenting intensity also demands that sense of urgency from everyone around him. It can be exhausting to work for someone like that, but they're also more capable of bringing out the best in the people around them - if they don't run as fast as they can to be away from it. Every year he's going to go out and try to get the best players he can, whether in high school or transfers. What he'll be looking for is a work ethic, specifically on the defensive side. He's going to look for athleticism and length. He's not going to care about the amount of eligibility they have left, or what they'll look like 3 years from now. That's not his mindset. He's going to grab the most talented players he can who fit that template. He'll try to sell everyone into buying into the team concept, with positionless players who can all bring the ball up the floor, shoot from the perimeter and mid range, and the best 5 will play regardless of some kind of pre-defined position. I think some of this is going to end up being bullshit, because it's not realistic to have a team where anyone can bring it up the floor, regardless of how much Beard likes spouting that line. And then he's going to employ a defense that will always be among the country's leaders, with an offense that emphasizes efficiency with low turnovers and deliberate shot selection. The next year rinse and repeat. If that doesn't sound appealing to you, I get it. Different strokes for different folks. After the 6 years of Shaka Smart, I'm all for it. I think this is an excellent formula for having consistent NCAA tournament success. I don't know how many national championships it will bring, but one would increase the amount this program has won in its history by an infinite percentage. Regularly making Sweet 16s and only losing in the first round in a blue moon would send me into dreamland, basketball fan-wise. Which is the journey I feel like we're embarking on for as long as Beard is at the helm. Don't know if BWG can ever get on board with any of that. And, frankly, I don't really care. I am grateful for spurring on basketball discussion. Like the saying goes, if you want help on the internet, don't post a question. Post the wrong answer. You'll get people leaping over themselves to tell you how wrong you are and why. I feel like this is what BWG has done with his takes on Beard the entire time. So there's an element of gratitude about that.18 points
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The real reason nothing will/can be done. Taken from the Atlantic: After each of the repeated mass shootings that now provide a tragic backbeat to American life, the same doomed dance of legislation quickly begins. As the outraged demands for action are inevitably derailed in Congress, disappointed gun-control advocates, and perplexed ordinary citizens, point their fingers at the influence of the National Rifle Association or the intransigent opposition of congressional Republicans. Those are both legitimate factors, but the stalemate over gun-control legislation since Bill Clinton’s first presidential term ultimately rests on a much deeper problem: the growing crisis of majority rule in American politics. Polls are clear that while Americans don’t believe gun control would solve all of the problems associated with gun violence, a commanding majority supports the central priorities of gun-control advocates, including universal background checks and an assault-weapons ban. Yet despite this overwhelming consensus, it’s highly unlikely that the massacre of at least 19 schoolchildren and two adults in Uvalde, Texas, yesterday, or President Joe Biden’s emotional plea for action last night, will result in legislative action. That’s because gun control is one of many issues in which majority opinion in the nation runs into the brick wall of a Senate rule—the filibuster—that provides a veto over national policy to a minority of the states, most of them small, largely rural, preponderantly white, and dominated by Republicans. The disproportionate influence of small states has come to shape the competition for national power in America. Democrats have won the popular vote in seven of the past eight presidential elections, something no party had done since the formation of the modern party system in 1828. Yet Republicans have controlled the White House after three of those elections instead of one, twice winning the Electoral College while losing the popular vote. The Senate imbalance has been even more striking. According to calculations by Lee Drutman, a senior fellow in the political-reform program at New America, a center-left think tank, Senate Republicans have represented a majority of the U.S. population for only two years since 1980, if you assign half of each state’s population to each of its senators. But largely because of its commanding hold on smaller states, the GOP has controlled the Senate majority for 22 of those 42 years. The practical implications of these imbalances were dramatized by the last full-scale Senate debate over gun control. After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut, the Senate in 2013 voted on a measure backed by President Barack Obama to impose background checks on all gun sales. Again assigning half of each state’s population to each of its senators, the 54 senators who supported the bill (plus then–Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who opposed it only for procedural reasons) represented 194 million Americans. The remaining senators who opposed the bill represented 118 million people. But because of the Senate’s filibuster rule, which requires the backing of 60 senators to move legislation to a vote, the 118 million prevailed. The outcome likely would not differ today. Last year, the House passed legislation to expand and strengthen background checks. But it, too, has been blocked by a Republican filibuster in the Senate. That impassable opposition reflects the GOP’s reliance on the places and voters most deeply devoted to gun culture. Polling last year by the Pew Research Center found that the share of Republicans who live in a household with a gun (54 percent) far exceeds the share of Democrats who do (31 percent). (In all, Pew found that four in 10 adults live in a house with a gun and only three in 10 own one.) A 2020 Rand Corporation study found that the 20 states with the highest rates of gun ownership had elected almost two-thirds of the Senate’s Republican lawmakers (32 of 50) and comprised about two-thirds of the states that President Donald Trump carried in the 2020 election (17 of 25). In an almost mirror image, the 20 states with the lowest rates of gun ownership had elected almost two-thirds of the Senate’s Democratic lawmakers (also 32 of 50) and comprised about two-thirds of the states Biden won (16 of 25). The 20 states with the lowest rates of gun ownership have more than two and half times as many residents (about 192 million) as the states with the highest gun-ownership rates (about 69 million). But in the Senate, these two sets of states carry equal weight. In their opposition to gun control, Republicans in Congress clearly are prioritizing the sentiments of gun owners in their party over any other perspective, even that of other Republican voters. The Pew polling found that significant majorities of Americans support background checks (81 percent), an assault-weapons ban (63 percent), and a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines (64 percent); a majority also opposes concealed carry of weapons without a permit. Majorities of Republicans who don’t own guns shared those opinions, as did Democratic gun owners, by even more lopsided margins. Even most Republicans who do own guns said in the polling that they support background checks and oppose permitless concealed carry (which more red states, including Texas, are authorizing). Despite all of this, Republican elected officials, in their near-lockstep opposition to gun control, have bent to groups like the NRA in equating almost any restrictions as a sign of disrespect to the values of red America. Even though the NRA has weakened institutionally, its influence inside the GOP has been magnified by the reconfiguration of American politics along geographic lines. When Congress, during Clinton’s first term, created the national background-check system through the Brady Bill and later approved a ban on assault weapons (which has since expired), significant numbers of congressional Democrats representing rural constituencies opposed the legislation, while significant numbers of Republicans with big suburban constituencies supported it. But three decades of electoral re-sorting has significantly shrunk both of those groups. As a result, when the House passed its universal-background-check bill in 2021, only eight Republicans voted for it, while just a single Democrat voted against it. The Senate’s small-state bias is impeding legislative action on other issues on which Americans broadly agree, including climate change, abortion, and immigration. As with gun control, polls consistently show that a majority of Americans support acting on climate change, oppose overturning Roe v. Wade, and back comprehensive immigration reform, including offering legal status to undocumented immigrants (especially young people brought into the country by their parents). The House has passed legislation reflecting each of those perspectives. The Senate’s inaction on these issues again reflects the outsize influence of those states with the highest gun-ownership rates—which also tend to be those enmeshed in the fossil-fuel economy, with high shares of culturally conservative white Christians and low shares of immigrants. If there is any hope for congressional action on gun control in the aftermath of the Uvalde tragedy—or another mass shooting in the future—it almost certainly will require reform or elimination of the filibuster. Otherwise, the basic rules of American politics will continue to allow Republicans to impose their priorities even when a clear majority of Americans disagree. The hard truth is that there’s no way to confront America’s accelerating epidemic of gun violence without first addressing its systemic erosion of majority rule.16 points
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America has an insecure loser problem. Gun culture is birthed from rampant feelings of inadequacy. The winners in American society don’t post photos of all their guns arranged on the floor of their exurban tract home. That’s the social media MO of our losers. Guns give a sense of power to the powerless. They’re a source of pride for those who haven’t earned it. In America, you can walk into a gun store and exchange your meager disposable income for a semi-automatic substitute for success. And you never have to do anything with those guns except own them and pose them and fantasize about all the heroic things you’d do with them in an imagined world of imminent threats. These dipshits are all Ralphie with his Red Ryder carbine. Except Ralphie grew up.14 points
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Arterio Morris posted on his instagram story last night that he will be "home sweet home in Austin" with a timer counting down to 12 hours. So yeah, he's definitely making it to campus.14 points
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I understand why we focus on the lives lost in a situation like Uvalde, but I wish there was more discussion about the children and teachers who survived and how this affects the rest of their lives. Many will have PTSD, depression, anxiety. What affects them could possibly affect their future children. GOP wants to talk about mental health? OK, let's fucking talk about mental health. These mass shootings are causing hundreds of thousands of people to deal with trauma that doesn't ever need to happen. There will be generational issues for the people who LIVED. Fuck this world.13 points
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Lol. This guy! Hes the fucking admin. Hes here to keep us animals in line. Youre new to the intranets arent you?10 points
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Lol at thinking the NCAA cares about the proximity of an AF base to wherever they sent AFA10 points
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I am convinced that insecurity is at the root of all the right-wing bullshit we are dealing with today, more specifically the fear of the loss of the white male privilege and the fear of anything and anyone "different". It all started when we elected a black president. This is where "take America back' and MAGA come from. This is the basis for stockpiling and clinging to guns, for racism, for "border enforcement", for marginalizing LGBTQ individuals, for regressive abortion policy. All of it. They are all a bunch of scared little babies that are not secure enough in their own worth to society that they have to protect that perceived worth through power grabs and separating themselves from anyone not like them.10 points
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I never met my mother's father. He died in 1942 from the effects of being gassed and wounded by artillery fire in 1918. He was not able to support his family after about 1932, and toward the end he had several heart attacks and strokes. Not everyone who dies of their wounds does so quickly, and we should remember those, too. RIP, Grandad Robert.10 points
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You're a fucking idiot if you think a propped open door is a significant contributor or anywhere close to the primary, secondary, or even tertiary cause of this event. It is a fucking elementary school, not a goddamn prison or military base.9 points
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Fuck you cancer. Fuck you Agent Orange. RIP Dad, love and miss you still. Thank you to all who made the ultimate sacrifice. :salute:9 points
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Breaking: Kelvin Banks has been named starter at LT after beating out every other tackle on the roster by walking into the building.9 points
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I've written about him before, but I think it bears repeating... The day after the flag raising on Iwo Jima, my dad's youngest Uncle, Jasper, better known as "Bunch" ( a nickname given to him by my great-grandmother) was a part of the attack to take Motiyama Airfield #2 in the middle of the island. (pic below with my great aunt Jean and my grandmother to the far right, Bunch is to the left and was still in high school in this pic. My grandmother was the oldest, 15 yrs his senior, with Bunch the youngest sibling). Bunch served as a BAR man, and had previously seen combat on Guam with K Co. 21st Marines, 3rd Marine Division. The pics of his watch are with the band made from aluminum from a downed Japanese Zero while on Guam. The jungle destroyed leather wristbands, and most made metal bands for their watches because of this. The palm trees were punched by him with a nail. Bunch didn't need to serve, as both his older brothers, Giuseppe (Pep) and George were already in the Pacific. Pep as a SeaBee building airstrips on captured islands, and George as a Marine Sergeant in the 1st Marine Division. Bunch had also accidentally shot himself with a .22 in the foot when he was a younger teenager while hunting frogs. This made him a 4F designee but he still wanted to serve. Twice turned down by the Army and once by the Marines he was finally accepted into the Marine Reserves on his 4th try. The 21st Marines weren't to be used on Iwo, initially to be held in reserve but casualties were so high in the 4th and 5th Divisions, that they were sent in late on the first and following days. The morning of the 24th, K Co would be the attacking company in the center of the airfield. According to the letter that was sent to my great-grandmother (one that I have been able to read), Bunch was out front of the company giving covering fire and halfway across the airfield when he was hit by deadly and accurate mortar fire, killing him. My great uncle had just reached his 19th birthday earlier that February. Though I never met her, I was told my great-grandmother never got over his death. Like over 6000 other Marines, Bunch was initially interred in the 3rd Marine Division Cemetary on Iwo Jima. After the war, my- great grandmother had him brought home to South Texas where he is buried in his hometown of Crystal City. RIP Uncle Bunch edit: The watch and other affects were passed down to one of my Dad's cousins ( I wish had them but at least they are in good keeping). The watch keeps perfect time and is wound by him every year on this day, Memorial Day.8 points
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Brisket, potato salad (recipe from Franklin’s book is a good one), pintos, blueberry cobbler. This one turned out very good; WSM ran like a champ as always.8 points
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Say what you will about Beto, but somebody from the democratic party had to run for governor. At least he's sticking his neck out and trying. A helluva lot more than I can say about some of the other democratic "stars" in this state.8 points
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There's a newly created thread if you want to argue about last years defense and personnel. Further posts on that topic in this thread will earn some time off.8 points
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So wait. Her husband can get a DUI yet her and the Clintons and every other Democrat control everything and have people killed and silenced and all that shit? But they’re also morons….who can’t do a damn thing right…. Starting to get a feeling right wingers are a tad bit full of shit…8 points
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You want sensible gun control, and you want the Republican party to cease being beholden to the MAGA cult. Both of those things have the same solution. So what issues could possibly be more important right now that you can't temporarily put aside to help contribute to that solution? What issues are more important than dead kids?7 points
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Lulz at the plot nit picks. The plot and mission are ridiculous but not as ridiculous as how they got out but I didn't care. It was a fucking glorious movie and I'll prolly see it again in a theater.7 points
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Only reason why they are so resistant to red flag laws that bar the mentally ill from firearms is that they assume a bunch of their constituents will fail. No other reason to be against the mentally ill having easy access to firearms.7 points
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My dad still carries a lot of guilt from losing men in his company during Vietnam. I’ve never been able to get him to talk about it, and I’m pretty sure he’ll carry it to his grave. Semper Fi to all who’ve given their lives.7 points
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Posted pa's pics before. At noon I'll go out and wail some Taps on the sax, and raise the flag to full staff, as is the Memorial Day custom after having it at half staff in the morning (plus after having it 1/2 staff after Uvalde the past 3 days). RIP those who died so that we might live.7 points
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The wife ran into a couple at our HEB with this bundle with them. She jokingly asked "Are you giving her away?" .....Well that question, a new 3 month old, and that they had just found her on their property (somebody apparently dumped her), she is now terrorizing our clan of misfit mutts. 1RY0Rmr7THearsEEXXuKHg.MOV6 points
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I’d like Texas, Okie St, and Tech to beat the shit out of their teams in the regional this first weekend and win the next to get to Omaha. Fuck ou and aggy. Let’s get some of last year’s magic working! Omaha or bust, Motherfuckers! 🤘🏼6 points
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No, that’s not my logic. But that doesn’t change the fact I think they are useless and not needed in any fashion. You’d likely be surprised where I fall on ALOT of it. I would LOVE for there to be some common sense actions put in place (f2f loopholes, more stringent background checks, easing into red flag requirements, licensing, proven safe storage, raise age on some firearms, some type of class/recert). I think this problem can be slowed, but unfortunately don’t think it will ever be solved. But slowing it is a hell of a start. And we should be following our rules already on the books without fault, yesterday.6 points
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Honestly shocked we ended up with a national seed, but I’ll take it. Our draw is pretty tough - Arky, Grand Canyon… even Missouri State can sneak up on you. Saw they put TCU in College Station. Hopefully we get the annual “TCU shatters Aggy dreams” situation again.6 points
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Surgery went well. Most of the mass was cystic (fluid) that had grown as a result of the smaller tumor. The whole thing was about the size of a tennis ball (WTF right?). The pressure from the cyst was what was making her act weird and lose motor functions, which is why my sis took her to the ER in the first place. The neurosurgeon said that they got out some of the tumor but most brain tumors burrow themselves in and you can't fully remove them with surgery without cutting out part of the brain, and even that doesn't do it. We won't know for sure until the biopsy comes back in a week, but the surgeon believes it's a type that is very treatable (it's a very long name and I can't remember it). The surgery was last night and she didn't sleep well after. She slept most of today but when she was awake she was still confused and acting weird like before. Doc says this may just be because of swelling and pressure due to the surgery. I sure as fuck hope so. We'll see tomorrow if her cognition improves. So all in all this has been mostly good results. Not out of the woods yet with a return to her normal brain function, and not out of the woods with the type of cancer it is, but odds are in her favor. Oh... and she's been taking care of my 95yo grandpa for the last year at her house. So I'm here tonight drinking beer with him and making him burgers. This sucks for him as he'll probably have to go to assisted living now, which I think he'd rather die than do. This dude is another story. He's beaten cancer 3 times, has 2 artificial hips, and a pacemaker. When he was 16 he got kicked off of Canadian Naval ship on it's way to the Pacific when they found out his age.6 points
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