Well worth getting up at 0245 to make the 0415 manifest. BG Reeder spoke at length, one of the best CofC speeches I've ever heard (helps to have your roots in "The Family Business"!), COL Kraft followed suit, and COL Fletcher put the icing on the cake. 7th marches forward in good hands. (And only four observed casualties to the Florida sun!  Course one of them was front and center in the middle of the CG's speech!  )
Got to see the new compound for the first time - all I can say is WOW! Still a lot to do, it'll be a work in progress throughout COL Fletcher's tour but a phenomenal facility nonetheless.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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