Posted on 07/30/2022 8:25:24 AM PDT by Hojczyk
There is no one in the Democrat party or Democrat media axis fit to shine this man’s boots.
Meet Ron Desantis. Born on September 14, 1978, in Jacksonville, Florida.
[1] He is of Italian descent.
2] His family moved to Orlando, Florida, before relocating to Dunedin, Florida, when he was six years old.
[3] In 1991, he was a member of the Little League team from Dunedin National that made it to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
[4] After graduating from Dunedin High School in 1997, he attended Yale University. He was Captain of Yale varsity baseball team and joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.
[5] On the Yale baseball team, he was an outfielder; as a senior in 2001, he had the team’s best batting average at .336.
[6] He graduated from Yale in 2001 with a B.A. Magna Cum Laude in History.
[7] He then spent a year as a History Teacher at the Darlington School.
8] He attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 2005 with a Juris Doctor Cum Laude.
[9] He received his Reserve Naval Officer’s commission and assignment to the Judge Advocate Generals Corps (JAG) in 2004 at the U.S. Naval Reserve Center in Dallas, Texas, while still a student at Harvard Law School.
[10] He completed Naval Justice School in 2005.
[11] Later that year, he received orders to the JAG Trial Service Office Command South East at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, as a Prosecutor.
[12] In 2006, he was promoted from Lieutenant, Junior Grade to Lieutenant. He worked for the Commander of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO), working directly with detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Joint Detention Facility.
[13] In 2007, he reported to the Naval Special Warfare Command Group in Coronado, California, where he was assigned to SEAL Team One anddeployed to Iraq with the Troop surge as the Legal Advisor to the SEALCommander, Special Operations Task Force-West in Fallujah.
[14] He returned to the U.S. in April 2008, at which time he was reassigned to the Naval Region Southeast Legal Service.
[15] The U.S. Department of Justice appointed him to serve as an Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Florida.
[16] He was assigned as a Trial Defense Counsel until his honorable discharge from active duty in February 2010.
[17] He concurrently accepted a reserve commission as a Lieutenant Commander in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the US Navy Reserve.
[18] He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the Iraq Campaign Medal.
[19] He represented Florida’s 6th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives from 2013 to 2018.
Oh, by the way, this former Navy Lt. and SEAL, is – Ron DeSantis,Governor of Florida.
This is correct and I don't recall he's ever claimed otherwise.
Nonetheless, if you're going to be attached to a SEAL team in any capacity, you'd better be in shape as they get to pick and choose who gets to tag along with them.
That’s it right there.
I like DeSantis, but I do NOT like his Ivy league pedigree. That is a mark against him in my book.
Part of the swamp? My goodness.
You do know that Trump went to an Ivy League school.
Can’t find that....
University of Pennsylvania
I received this essay as an email a few days ago and felt compelled to respond to my FRiend in this way:
“Don’t get me wrong - Ron DeSantis is the best “thing” to happen to Florida and the USA, after DJT, of course!
“HST, he is NOT a Seal - the email author does not have his/her facts straight re: DeSantis being a Seal.
“Governor Desantis served as a JAG officer in a Seal unit, and when you see his uniform picture, he is wearing JAG insignia, not the Seal Trident.
“I don’t mean to diminish his service, but his being a full-blown Seal is not accurate. I am sure he worked out with them, and is probably an “honorary” Seal, but he is not the Real Deal Seal.
“Have you ever wondered why a Seal unit would need a Jag officer? Seals break things and kill people - they need a lawyer for that?”
I am! Born in Ybor, UF grad and retired a few miles north of Tampa.
It shouldn't tell you enough about the voters, it should tell you enough about the press. The News Misleadia made sure to fail to investigate Gillum, who, when he lost, had these tidbits emerge:
...and...
Grandaughter graduating from Brown this year with a PHD in Bio...blah blah blah and a Masters in something supportive. Real hard working braino
may God continue protect and advance him and his.
Amen to that.
“I haven’t read ONE DAM COMMENT FROM YOU FREEPERS...except that he is a native Floridian!
No wonder they call REPUBLICANS the STUPID party.”
Lay off the caffeine ...
“Has DeSantis commented yet on the SCOTUS overturning Roe? That’s the biggest thing that’s happened in half a century. While I am sure he’s pro life, what is Florida doing on the issue?”
It is safe for you to come out of your cave ...
My response is succinct: "Who, of the two of you, managed to become President of the United States?"
People who provide technical and administrative support to the Teams are normally heavily vetted. SpecOp in general treat their support staff far better than other elite groups like say pilots. You are treated like part of the team. Non-operators who served with the teams can even join the UDT-SEAL Association.
6 years in the future? What makes you think this Nation will still be here?
Impressive that he managed to navigate all that Ivy League education and come out a common sense conservative.
That makes him part of the Swamp. There is no escaping this. He is part of the Swamp.
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So? What is your solution? To bring in an outsider? Someone with no political experience?
Guess what? We tried that. And the swamp ate him alive.
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