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Well Done AJ Gonzales

Started by stoneknives, November 11, 2025, 05:56:43 PM

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stoneknives

Veteran, Firefighter, Cave Diver, Explorer and Project Appleseed Instructor

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"Dunedin Fire Rescue's Firefighter/Paramedic AJ Gonzales and Firefighter/EMT Makayla Bowers were honored with the Medal of Valor for their extraordinary bravery during a residential fire on San Mateo Drive on October 14, 2025.
Armed only with basic tools and unwavering courage, they entered a burning home, located a trapped resident, and carried them to safety, saving a life before additional crews arrived. Their calm, skill, and selfless heroism exemplify what it means to serve."
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"When men's rules are Honorable and Just I will follow them. When I find the laws tolerable, I will tolerate them. When I find the rules obnoxious, I will ignore them. When I find evil imposed or codified, I will War against it. My Lord has made it known and understood to me that to accept the gift of freedom I will alone bear the full responsibility everything I do, or chose not to do." I .......    "This is Appleseed. We are here to restore the Republic. Tyrants, major or petty, need not apply."  I .......

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TheMenace

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

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

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ScubaSteve

Cool and I sure well deserved.

ArmyVet

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.

LadyRimfire

Nikki
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Battle Road- 9/2/23
Rifleman - Dunbarton, NH 10/20/24
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
~Thomas Paine
"Those people who are not governed by GOD will be ruled by tyrants."
~William Penn
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
~John Adams

ShooterMagoo

That's crazy. To me, this is PFCAJ, well-known cave diver... with good reputation, no less :)

Congrats AJ, you seem to keep yourself busy! Well done to you and your colleague.

Texas T

Our world could use more like you. Thank you. You exemplify what we should all strive to be. May God continue to watch over you in the future as in the past.
"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!!!

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Bundt Pan

Quote from: Texas T on November 12, 2025, 08:56:07 AMOur world could use more like you. Thank you. You exemplify what we should all strive to be. May God continue to watch over you in the future as in the past.
:yeahthat:
NRA Training Counselor, Chief Range Safety Officer and Life member

No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms. 1st Draft of the VA Constitution by T. Jefferson

UpACreek

Quote from: Texas T on November 12, 2025, 08:56:07 AMOur world could use more like you. Thank you. You exemplify what we should all strive to be. May God continue to watch over you in the future as in the past.

Can't say it better than that.
:beer:
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Roswell

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
– Thomas Paine
Common Sense; 1776

Not Sure

One Awesome American! :bow:  :bow:  :bow:  :bow:

JustKim

It's not about perfection -- it's about progress!!

I LOVE this stuff!

"Perhaps you and I have lived with this miracle too long to be properly appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again" Ronald Reagan