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    Decisive action...

    Making a critical call which can either save or end a life hanging in the balance is something most of us may never have to face...Others do it as part of the routine of their jobs...Here is the story of one such decision...
    "Essentially, you wake up in the morning, and there's been many times where we've been picked off for different missions," Lampela said. "So you're actually going here, you're going to this country, or a humanitarian issue pops up. So you're never really sure of … what you think you're going to do. But until you actually go do it, nothing's really guaranteed."
    My hat is off to those who can do it even knowing their decision may be the wrong one......Ben
    The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...

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    Kudos to that crew
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    Screw protocol to save a life, hell yes, Well done by that crew

    Been there, broke regs, got my ass chewed at first then got a pat on the back later
    "The only thing that we learn from torture is the depths of our own moral depravity"

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