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Congratulations to Tennessee's newest Senior Instructor

Started by Cleveland, November 17, 2024, 04:17:19 PM

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November 17, 2024, 04:17:19 PM Last Edit: November 17, 2024, 05:37:56 PM by Cleveland
Friends,

ArmyVet joined Appleseed in 2019 and is a pillar within the Southeast Region.  He has been an active instructor and shoot boss. Besides being an active part of the Tennessee cadre, he has helped out in IN, GA, AL, SC, and KY. He is also the National Survey Coordinator.

ArmyVet - thank you for accepting a grey hat as we advance our mission for Liberty.

Please join me in congratulating our newest SI!  Huzzah!   ^:)^

In Liberty,
Cleveland
The highest level of mastery is simplicity. Most information is irrelevant and most effort is wasted, but only the expert knows what to ignore. James Clear

Rifleman 19April2015
KD Qualified 17Oct2015
Pistoleer™ 12Dec2020
Pistol Requal 23June2024
KD Requal 11Nov2021 50/50
Pistol IBC/Charter Pistol Instructor Antioch 2-22
200y RKD Qualified 14May2022
Morgan's Shingle 27Oct2024 (seated)
KD Requal 19Apr2025

Mrs. Smith

#1
November 17, 2024, 04:41:01 PM
Congratulations Rick! This needed to happen  :partytime:   When finally we meet, the adult beverages are on me  :beer:  :F
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher

You can have peace, or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - Robert A. Heinlein

"A generation which ignores history has no past, and no future." - Lazarus Long

"What we do now echoes in eternity." Marcus Aurelius

Leadslinger66

#2
November 17, 2024, 05:02:58 PM
Congratulations Rick!
John

"We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor." - the signers of the Declaration of Independence

Maximum effort

#3
November 17, 2024, 08:18:06 PM
Congrats Rick!!! So proud of your dedication and steadfast performance at every event. Huzzah!!
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." —Thomas Jefferson

dond

#4
November 17, 2024, 10:17:00 PM
Congratulations Rick. I'm so glad to see this. I know how hard you have worked to achieve this.  ^:)^  :~
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law" because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.  Thomas Jefferson

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.  H. L. Mencken

Roswell

#5
November 17, 2024, 10:54:26 PM
Congrats Rick!  :beer:
Known Distance Qualified: Talladega, AL 12-3-16 - 45/50; Distinguished 49/50 - Talladega, AL 12-8-19
Rimfire Known Distance Qualified (200 yd): Martin, GA 2-28-21
Instructor Boot Camp: Toccoa, GA 7-13, 8-15; Pelham, TN 2-14, 2-16; Columbiana, AL 2-15; Canton, GA 2-18, 1-19, 2-20, 2-21, 3-22, 2-23, 1-24; Marietta 1-25
Shoot Boss Boot Camp and Liberty Seminar: Toccoa, GA 8-14 & Canton, GA 1-19

Pistol Instructor Boot Camp: South Huntsville, AL 5-20; Canton, GA 1-21, 2-24; Marietta 2-25
Pistol Qualified: Spencer, TN 4-10-21
Charter Pistol Instructor Boot Camp: Antioch, TN 2-22 & Canton, GA 1-23

ArmyVet

#6
November 17, 2024, 11:22:17 PM
Thanks for all the support - it means a lot to me. We are each a product of our environment and I have been fortunate to have been mentored over the years by many fine examples. First and foremost, Cleveland for taking my under his wing when I was an unpolished, new Red Hat back on the Buffalo Ranch. There is truth in his words - If you want to be a better instructor, work with better instructors.

Google (she has an interesting description of my first IBC experience!), Maximum Ordinate for the trust, confidence, and patience. Ramblin' Wreck for the praise and getting me out of my comfort zone when telling history. DonD - I can't even begin to express my thanks. Every event I worked with you was like a graduate course in the COF.

I hope I can live up to the expectations going forward.

The difference between a novice and a master: the novice does it until they get it right. The master does it until they can't get it wrong.

TallTimber

#7
November 18, 2024, 03:52:40 AM
Awesome, Rick! Congratulations!

Tennessee Beast

#8
November 18, 2024, 11:45:41 AM
Huzzah!!! Huzzah!  Huzzah!!!! Congratulations, Rick!!!  Thanks for all you do for Tennessee!  You're awesome!!!!

 :F  :F  :F
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom, God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
John Lancaster Spalding

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, 1775

"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies."  George Washington 1790

"[T]o preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them…"
- Richard Henry Lee, Declaration Signer

Practice every time you get a chance. - Bill Monroe

Eagle Keeper

#9
November 18, 2024, 12:57:22 PM
 "The Face of Appleseed" now the hat matches the hair.
 :bow:  O0  ^:)^  ^:)^  :beer:  :partytime:  :beer:   O0
 :~  :---  :---  :~  :---  :~  :~
I have come here to chew gum and teach riflemen the art of shooting one hole groups and I'm all out of bubblegum.
   Z-man
If the arrow is set up correctly , the Indian can focus on learning his craft.
 Z-17

ArmyVet

#10
November 18, 2024, 01:57:50 PM
Quote from: Eagle Keeper on November 18, 2024, 12:57:22 PM"The Face of Appleseed" now the hat matches the hair.
 :bow:  O0  ^:)^  ^:)^  :beer:  :partytime:  :beer:   O0
 :~  :---  :---  :~  :---  :~  :~
Thanks! At least the beard matches right?  ;D
The difference between a novice and a master: the novice does it until they get it right. The master does it until they can't get it wrong.

scuzzy

#11
November 18, 2024, 03:04:00 PM
Huzzah!!! Huzzah!!! Huzzah!!!
Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as to not offend the Imbeciles. Fyodor Dostoevsky

upacreek

#12
November 18, 2024, 03:46:41 PM
Congrats, ArmyVet!  Well deserved  :F
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

TheMenace

#13
November 18, 2024, 05:48:40 PM
Excellent choice! Congratulations!
Dennis
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gunjunkie

#14
January 05, 2025, 12:48:43 PM
I know I am a little late to the party but, congratulations Rick you have certainly earned it.
Be aware of yourself and everything around you.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom! Thomas Jefferson

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