There is nothing easy about the United States Navy 5TH FLEET Area of Responsibility (AOR); it is a difficult environment that is not intended to be navigated by the comfortable or the faint of heart.

In the history of mankind, warfare among the honorable has been an instrument of last resort when the safety and sovereignty of our families’ freedoms and liberties are threatened by a third-party aggressor seeking for their families’ to profit from the termination of our existence.

On shore some within the uninitiated and those who have never stood a watch in the defense of freedom provide evidence supporting a predilection for casting words that reference evidence of their historical conduct as a form of vexatious threat or hostility.

Public servants who find the intensity of veterans to be disrespectful without any supporting evidence only provide evidence of how undesirable they would find the battlefield that trained, shaped, and conditioned them.