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October 07, 2004
Col. Hank Keirsey, badass
One of the main parts of this weekend in San Francisco was the paintball event. The two military advisors, Hank Keirsey and John Hillen were there to teach us about World War II weapons and tactics.
Hillen is actually the on-air ABC Military Correspondent and also a Contributing Editor to the National Review - which was very cool in that he was liveblogging during the vice presidential debate (Cheney won I think) and I was reading the NRO blog. Kinda cool when we figured that out at the bar after the debate and then talked politics for a while. He was surprised someone of my age reads NRO, but hey, I like surprising people.
John was cool, but Hank was the man. This guy is a one man military machine. He was telling us some great stories about some of the government work he was contracted to do (only in vague references though, you could tell he couldn't talk a lot). He talked Iraq and how he thought the media was making it out to be a lot worse then it was and was giving specific examples of when stories had been distorted by the media - no surprise.
Anyways, Hank taught us some military tactics and he and I worked pretty well together in paintball. Except he went shirtless, when I said this guy is hardcore, I mean it. He was charging enemy positions and being very aggressive.
Me and Hank, notice the bruises on Hank's chest. This doesn't even show the bleeding arm he had.
Neil wrote me a note for missing my test.
Here's all of us.
It was a lot of fun, and Hank was a great guy to hang out with. Hopefully I'll run into him again.
-Will
Posted by badwillhunting at October 7, 2004 07:46 PM