These are highly trained men just doing their job and what they believe in. Oddly enough, most the people opposing Blackwater dont realize that the job at hand happens to be just what it is Americans have been begging for... STOPPING THE WAR IN IRAQ. Its is their job to protect and ensure the safety of these diplomats so that they can safely get to where their going so that they may sign what is needed to STOP THE WAR.
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You went to Annapolis.
Did you—
I went there for a year and a half.
[Did you leave because] you didn't think the people there were actually serious enough?
I found the Academy to have a lot of extra rules and regulations, and it kind of chafed me. So I left, and I went to school. I was a fireman. Did you guys find that out?
Yeah, we did.
A great time. I dove for the county sheriff's department doing body recoveries.
To be a SEAL, and to be part of a small unit, it's even more regimented than [what] you had in Annapolis.
The one time I got a safety violation … I didn't have my flare attached to my knife correctly. You have to have the right end down. Why does that matter? Because if it's in the dark and you're in trouble, you need to get that flare off. Those kind of small rules save lives.
[It's been] reported that you're involved with conservative religious groups like the Institute for World Politics, Christian Freedom International.
The Institute of World Politics is a graduate school that teaches Foreign Service officers and military officers. A friend of mine started it. I'm proud to be on that board because they do great work. Christian Freedom International, I don't think I've been to a board meeting in probably a year and a half or two years, and they provide some help to folks that were persecuted in Sudan and Burma and places like that.
The Council for National Policy promotes evangelical candidates.
I went to some of those meetings in high school, in college, with my parents and in the last, let's see, 15 years, I've probably been to one or two of those meetings.
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