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Started by Old Navy Doc, September 30, 2025, 11:28:13 PM

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Old Navy Doc

For 16 years I've been honored to be associated with Project Appleseed. I started with Fred at Ramseur and later he handed me my first Rifleman patch, Rusty running my first RBC, Wreck handing me an Orange Hat, Coke Guy my Red Hat, and Mixed Metaphor my Pistoleer™ Patch. Now it's time for me to retire.

The time spent with you all, my friends, is irreplaceable. The time spent sharing our National heritage and motivating new patriots makes my existence on this mortal coil worth it.

I leave you because the love of my life needs me now, but I will always be grateful for all you have given me and meant to me. Keep up the mission.

Bless you all and Godspeed.

Steve Mitchell
Old Navy Doc
Nashville TN
First AS: Ramseur 2/09
Rifleman: Charlotte 11/14
Orange Hat: Calera 1/15
KD Rifleman: Puryear 5/15
Red Hat: Sevierville  11/16
Rimfire KD: Huntsville 12/20
Pistoleer™: Huntsville 2/21

"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."  Plato

Ohio Piper

Fair winds and following seas, shipmate.  We have the watch.  Like me, you have sworn at least two oaths, one of them to love and care for your wife.  You're doing the right thing. 

Roswell

You will be missed sir! Thank you for all you did for the program.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
– Thomas Paine
Common Sense; 1776

TheMenace

Thank you for your service. Wishing you all the best in this new phase of your life.
Sons of Liberty!
Defend the Constitution,
The Law of Our Land
https://youtu.be/w6H12dyS8FI
Joshua 1:9
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."—William Faulkner, American author

DEH

Very sorry to hear, but completely understandable. 

Your absence will be a great loss to the program.
-Appleseed: '08-IBC, '09-Red Hat, '09-FT Stewart, '10-RBC,

'09, '10, '11, '14, '15, '16, '22, "25-KD, '24-IBC, Pistoleer™ '24. RFKD '25

-2Cor10:4-5. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, & bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

-Eph6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world forces of this moral darkness and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Leadslinger66

Doc, you are a gentleman and a scholar. Your witt, wisdom, and love of liberty will be missed. Thank you for your dedication.

May God bless you and your family as you navigate the changes.

Will be keeping you in our prayers.

John
John

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

Big John

Goodbye, Doc, thanks for coming to pistol us in Indiana a few years back.

UpACreek

Steve,
Like all the others have said, you'll be missed.  Thanks for all your time and caring.

You can retire from volunteering, but you're always Appleseed family.

We'll keep you and your family in our prayers.

 
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Eagle Keeper

Sad to see you go but I am thankful for the time we spent together.  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
Do you ever change to a new rifle thinking it will make you better?

Cleveland


Doc, thank you for your dedication to the Mission over the years. You are missed on the line.

Blessings to you and your family.
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 22Nov2025
KD Requal 11Nov2021 50/50
Pistol IBC/Charter Pistol Instructor Antioch 2-22
200y RKD Qualified 14May2022
Morgan's Shingle 27Oct2024 (seated)
Pistol Requal 22Nov2025
KD Requal 01Jan2025 49/50

Texas T

Our paths crossed only once, at Knob Creek KY several years ago. You were a great asset at that event, and it was a pleasure to work with you. God bless and you certainly have your priorities in the right order.
"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."  Mark Twain


First Appleseed, September 26-27, 2015;   First Rifleman, September 27, 2015;   First Redcoat, September 27, 2015;   Second Rifleman, September 27, 2015

Thanks Corvette, great instruction!!!

MI IBC, February 2017

ArmyVet

Thanks for your dedication, Doc! You will be missed  :'(

Fair winds and following seas.  O0
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

Take care and god bless.
My desire to be well informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.

AF5US

We go through various times in our lives.  It sounds like this is the time of life for you to focus on loved ones, and that's the right thing to do.  Thank you, sir.
Rifleman:                          04/2016
Known Distance Rifleman:  10/2018
Pistoleer™:                          08/2019
Distinguished Rifleman:      07/2020
Morgan's Shingle:              12/2021
Standing Morgan's Shingle: 11/2022
Member: GOA (Gun Owners of America)
Member: FPC (Firearms Policy Coalition)
Life Member: NRA (National Rifle Association)
Life Member: RWVA (Revolutionary War Veterans Association)

Tennessee Beast

Thank you for your service over the many years!!!!!  I know of many events that could not have gone well without your help.  You have definitely left a legacy that won't be forgotten.  I wish only the best for you and yours and will continue our dialogue as long as you want to. I'm only 20 something minutes away if you need me. Praying for you and your wife daily.
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

Charles McKinley

Thank you for your time here.  Wishing you and the love of your life the best.
Last evening, it occurred to me that when a defender of Liberty is called home, their load lands upon the shoulders of the defenders left behind. Just as the Founders did their duty for Liberty, every subsequent generation must continue their work lest Liberty perish. As there is no way for the remaining adults to take on the work of those that die, we must pass the ideals and duties on to the children. -PHenery