Phil Messina“When young men seek to be like you, when lazy men resent you, when powerful men look over their shoulder at you, when cowardly men plot behind your back, when corrupt men wish you were gone and evil men want you dead … Only then will you have done your share.”
– Song lyrics by Phil Messina


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5 Responses to When We Have Done Our Share – Phil Messina

  1. “That is great stuff!”
    Randall Milks

  2. I hear you on this topic. It would be great to have you spread the word on our products and training I would like to introduce you to our Dynamic Training, Hunting and lifesaving products!
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    We also have many courses of fire and provide certification for the officers which we should have a conversation about it is something that is coming for LE and it is good to be prepared in our training efforts.

    2 units

    We use stationary targets in the background as “civilians” to gain shot accountability. Typically provided by customer for demo.
    At the same time we use paintball to identify auditory exclusion and migrate the officer to the front of the vehicle behind the engine block for incoming fire cover over concealment.
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  3. “If” is a poem written in 1895 by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. Still rings true today…

    Christopher Gibney

    • Sheriff Ray says:

      You’re right. IF is an awesome poem. When I was Police Chief in Summerville, SC, the City Administrator had it done in calligraphy and placed on the wall of his office. I was always inspired by it…

      If

      If you can keep your head when all about you
      Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
      If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
      But make allowance for their doubting too:
      If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
      Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
      Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
      And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

      If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
      If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
      If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
      And treat those two impostors just the same:.
      If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
      Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
      Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
      And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;

      If you can make one heap of all your winnings
      And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
      And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
      And never breathe a word about your loss:
      If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
      To serve your turn long after they are gone,
      And so hold on when there is nothing in you
      Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

      If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
      Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
      If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
      If all men count with you, but none too much:
      If you can fill the unforgiving minute
      With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
      Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
      And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

      Rudyard Kipling

  4. I am so there…

    (Would anyone mind reaching around and pulling some of those knives from my back…?)

    Caoimhín P. Connell

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