82 Year-old SF Hippie Naval Vet challenges Hegseth to Push-Up Match
Mr. Secretary,
My name is Harold Lee Brown 682-21-90
I go by my chosen nickname of h. brown since I left the Navy in 1965
The lower case on my first and last names is a tribute to e.e. cummings
Look up my military record and see if you can match it.
My last posting was with an outfit called Naval Special Warfare Group Beach Jumper Unit 2 that was founded by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and composed of a bunch of really smart communications people and UDT units plus about 50% Ivy League officers that later became the Seals.
I also served at an illegal radio station in Morocco on the edge of the Sahara desert where we worked every day of our 18 month tours and every third day we did a double-back and worked 16 hour days.
After the third double-back we were off from 8am one day til 4pm the next day, so while we still worked every day there was that 32 hour liberty time.
3 of us took an ancient cattle car train a walk away for 10 mph treks 90 miles to Casablanca and sometimes 110 miles to Tangier.
There are lots of stories but the best one was when we got drunk and were arrested at a Ray Charles concert at a bullfighting ring in Casablanca by Moroccan soldiers with automatic rifles and German Shepherds on chains and taken to their base brig where we were freed by a Swiss diplomat.
So, anyway I’ve been kinda following your crusade to get the military in good physical shape and want you to know that Navy Boot camp at Great Lakes in 1962 gave me a start with serious calisthenics routines that I’ve followed most of my life..
I can do 100 rusty push-ups and I hear you can do 80.
Don’t believe me ?
To show you, I’m challenging you to a Push-Up match at my apartment this Saturday afternoon at 2pm.
Please contact me at my email;
Attorney General Cash will have my phone number and address.
Please RSVP asap as it’s only 69 hours til the match which I’ll do alone if you can’t make it.
Even if you can’t make it, please let me know you got this.
Did you know there was once a Secretary of Defense with my name ?
Harold Brown
Check it out,
h. brown
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