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Texas Salutes Maximum Ordinate (Rusty) - HUZZAH!!!

Started by Ghostring, July 31, 2024, 07:45:20 PM

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Ghostring

July 31, 2024, 07:45:20 PM
I'd like to take a moment to salute the most stalwart member of our Appleseed Family.
 
I'm speaking of one who has gone above and beyond to further the mission, and who has influenced our program in countless ways.  He has never asked for applause for his actions, nor does he toil to promote himself personally. For 5 years he has freely given of his time, talent, and treasure to bolster the program, the cadre, and further the mission – working tirelessly behind the scenes, and sometimes in videos, to make instructions more simple and precise. To improve the quality and consistency of the program, and to attract more attendees and the best instructors in the industry.  All of this while holding down an actual job and becoming a Grandfather to boot!

Who else could I be referring to but our very own Maximum Ordinate (Rusty Bonkoski)?

Within the span of just a few years he has been able to create and breathe life into Appleseed Academy, bring countless IBC events to states around the nation, and coalesce our somewhat fractious instruction styles and mannerisms into an experience that has cemented our reputation as possibly the best three-position rifle instruction program in the country, if not the world. All while spreading our message of the forming of this amazing Nation, the message of Liberty and Freedom, and the meaningful lives and dedication of the Patriot founders who brought forth onto this land our amazing home.

...but wait, there's more!

Though he has recently passed the mantle of National Coordinator on to Monkey (Jesse Espe – be sure to congratulate him on his new position!), his list of accomplishments continues to grow. Rusty's last event, just this past month, is recognized as his 300th event as an instructor in the program! And that count is notorious for being under-reported! Still, an "official" 300 event count is, literally, unheard of!!

Well Done!!!

Please join me in a salute to Rusty!     Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!
  :beer:   :F
"Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob, will find himself very much mistaken...
     They have men amongst them who know very well what they are about..." - Lord Hugh Percy

"If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you.  If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?" - John Gunther

"That's Kirby-level shooting, right there!" - Trailman

Taylor

#1
July 31, 2024, 08:25:18 PM
Well said! HUZZAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honoring the memory of Adonijah Taylor (1730-1810) my Grandfather seven generations back, Deerfield MA Militiaman and Patriot, who answered the alarm on April 19, 1775 and along with his six sons served in the War of the Revolution.

"What good fortune for governments that the people do not think." - Adolf Hitler

"All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party." - Mao Tse Tung

"Those bold enough to believe that they can change the world, are usually those which do."
-Albert Einstein

"Let Freedom never perish in your hands."
-Joseph Addison

HNHArmory

#2
July 31, 2024, 09:59:30 PM
Huzzah! :F
"...why are there 30 caliber holes in my target, Bryan?"

scuzzy

#3
July 31, 2024, 10:01:13 PM
Yup. Absolutely. Heck - we just might have to make him an honorary Texan one day.

O0 :partytime: :F :beer: :beer: :yeahthat:
Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as to not offend the Imbeciles. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mrs. Smith

#4
August 01, 2024, 10:38:10 PM
There aren't the words....  and that's saying something coming from me!  :slap:

so how about  :bow:  :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

Roswell

#5
August 01, 2024, 11:13:48 PM
Huzzah! Thank you Rusty. Love ya brother.
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

SteelThunder

#6
August 02, 2024, 12:45:49 AM
Unbelievable.  Thanks so much for your dedication   :bow:
NRA Patron Member, SAF Life Member
NRA Certified Rifle Instructor, RSO
Warlord of the West

Ultima vox civis
"Learning occurs only after repetitive, demoralizing failures." - Pat Rogers
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart." - Tecumseh
"Never attribute to treachery, that which can adequately be explained by incompetence" - Bonaparte, Hanlon, et al

TheMenace

#7
August 02, 2024, 06:31:14 PM
300! Awesome record. Rusty, you are an inspiration. Thanks for all you do!
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

Fidget

#8
August 05, 2024, 04:54:11 PM
Way to go!  ^:)^  Another Pin to be made and others to strive for?  ;D

AF5US

#9
August 05, 2024, 08:07:49 PM
Somehow, one "huzzah" just doesn't seem sufficient.  300 events merits three cheers, so . . .

:F  :F  :F Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!  :F  :F  :F
 O0  O0  O0
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)

Maximum Ordinate

#10
August 07, 2024, 09:38:24 AM
Thank you for all the kind words.  I'm blessed to have worked with my Texas Appleseed family.   O0
Knowing is half the battle.  -GI Joe.  (Showing up is the other half.)

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Gugisman

#11
August 10, 2024, 07:33:03 PM
You've made a huge difference, sir. Thank you, and God bless you for your drive, dedication, and heart!

 :F
The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty....The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament.
― Samuel Adams
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