Can you imagine a fishing/cooking channel on YouTube ran by that guy? Would have been great.

This is from Tara Ross on Facebook. She posts some great history lessons. Do yourself a favor and find her site if you're on facebook.

On this day in 1944, a hero is born. William “Pits” Pitsenbarger once tried to quit high school to join the Army. Instead, he finished high school, then joined the Air Force. He would go on to serve in Vietnam, completing hundreds of rescues as a pararescue medic.
“He wanted to go where the action was,” his father would say.
Airman 1st Class Pitsenbarger’s Medal action came on April 11, 1966. The day should have been relatively uneventful: It was his day off. Instead, Pits volunteered for a dangerous rescue mission. American soldiers were under fire near the village of Cam My. Our boys were outnumbered, and the casualties were mounting.
“I’ve got a bad feeling about this mission,” Pits told a friend, but he boarded one of two HH-43 Huskie rescue helicopters anyway. The crews were to hover above the trees and drop litters down for wounded soldiers. Not that it would be easy. The rescuers arrived on the scene, only to discover that the gap in the trees was pretty small. Soldiers on the ground were struggling, and they were loading the wounded into the litters incorrectly.
Pits resolved to go down and help during the second round of rescues.
“Once I’m down there I can really help out,” Captain Hal Salem remembered him saying. “I can show those guys how to rig the Stokes litter and load it right. It will be much faster, and you can put more people in the bird.”
You can imagine the soldiers’ surprise when they saw a member of the Air Force coming down through the trees! One soldier would later say that Pits must have been “out of his mind” to leave the helicopter. “There was only one man on the ground that day that would have turned down a ride out of that hellhole,” another soldier concurred, “and that man was Pitsenbarger.”
And a hellhole it was.
First Lt. Martin Kroah would later describe just how terrible the battle was: “At times the small-arms fire would be so intense it was deafening and all a person could do was get as close to the ground as possible and pray. . . . a fire team leader in my platoon curled up in a fetal position and sobbed uncontrollably. He had seen combat in both World War II and Korea. The psychological pressure was beyond comprehension.”
But Pits was unflappable. He took charge, ensuring that rescue operations ran more smoothly. The helicopters made multiple trips, getting nine soldiers out, before it became too difficult for them to operate. Salem made one last effort to get Pits aboard his Huskie, but Pits would have none of it. The helicopter was taking too much fire.
“[Pits] appeared to be hollering for us to get the hell out of there,” Salem later reported. “This was his second wave-off.”
By the time that helicopter returned to base, it had taken nine hits and the rotor blades were ruined. Would the helicopter have gotten back safely without Pits’s wave-off?
Back on the ground, Pits was everywhere. He helped the wounded. He gathered weapons and ammunition from dead men, then redistributed them. He joined the battle against the Viet Cong, but was unfortunately killed in the fire fight that night.
The casualty rates were staggering, which made it hard to collect eyewitness statements later. But during the 1990s, a few veterans of the battle took up the cause, and Pits’s Air Force Cross was upgraded to a Medal of Honor.
“Simply ask yourself,” an Air Force video concludes, “Why did he stay? This was not a man who died the right way. It was a man who lived the right way.”
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Now go find the movie "The Last Full Measure". Make sure you have an onion nearby. You'll know when to start peeling it.

I don’t get it … They got something against the rough stuff? They suspend Bauer and then cancelled his bobblehead promo.
From ESPN : “Bauer's side also provided text messages that show the woman inviting rough sex and talking about how she wants Bauer to "gimme all the pain" and "choke me out" eight days before the second encounter.”

That chick must be from Dillon.

area from IOP, SI, MP, and Berkeley County. No reports of any damage but it’s the middle of the night. Not getting much sleep with my phone blowing up with warnings. Kind of scary when they mention your neighborhood...

Any Gamecock football/recruiting questions? I'll be glad to answer right here. Thanks for being a member of GamecockCentral.com!

Just pulled their Rivals page up, wow they are killing it! 2 5s and I think the rest are 4s. But they are always loaded.

ryan day is killing it in recruiting. this is not the same program as when urban meyer was there. day is a far superior game time coach than meyer ever dreamed of. the beatdown of clemson proved that. day proved that he can win a big game even though they lost the natty game to one of the best ever bama teams. day passed dabo as 2nd fiddle to bama.

Austin Williamson, Pitcher out of NC chose SC over UNC and Vanderbilt, big pickup.

Read where Arch Manning recently visited Bama and UGA and took in team practices at both stops.

I get lost on the rules but what kind of team practices are allowed right now? Just the non-mandatory, player-led ones?

So let's say, the Manning kid gets a couple of million dollars. His offensive line is getting zero.
1. How do you think that's going to sit with the offensive line? Does he share the money with the line? Will the offensive line play soft so he get's his ass handed to him?
2. Do kids start holding out and boycott playing if they feel slighted by small amounts of money or no money? This would be a breach of their scholarship, imo.
3. Does the Vandy players take a stand and not want to play BAMA due to most of BAMA's players getting paid? A forfeited game...

This is just not good for collegiate athletics...kids are being rewarded with scholarships...

IMO it's time to let kids leave for the NFL after one season of college if their good enough.

A booster (This will most definitely be looked into. All 90 players on roster will be signed by this booster and given $500 a month. This means he will spend $540,000 a year on those endorsements. He says this evens the playing field in recruiting because they cannot compete facilities wise.

We still have a boy scout that doesn't know what a balance sheet is

We are going to some of dumbest looking helmets outside Penn State

Our stadium graphics and message boards are from 1980s

CU just announced $64 million in stadium improvements that will have them with 8th biggest video board in country.

Www.tigernet.com​

Stephen Garcia b-USC-h light

Kevin Harris on the road.
5 games 850 yards 11 TD's 170 yards per game.
Kevin Harris when at home.
5 games 288 yards 4 TD's 58 yards per game.

Just found that interesting.

Frank Martin mentioned he’d be on campus today and he’s officially here. Taking a tour of campus now.

Piggybacking off Judson’s post . Told her to wait but happy wife happy life and if she gets a new car I get a new guitar so win win . So our budget is $35 to $45 and used but low miles is ok . She wants all the bells and whistles (I have roll down windows and pull up locks in my truck ) . She’s looking at Rav 4’s , Cherokee’s etc etc stuff like that . Any recommendations??

I was thinking about what positions we would likely be taking after the final commit tomorrow. Obviously I’ll go out on a limb and say that it’s Felix Hixon for tomorrow’s commit. After that I think we take:
TE
DB
2 WR
2 DL
RB
Maybe another OL?
I think we have a good shot at getting at least 4 more 4 stars out of that list. Maybe Fegan, Williams, Delp, and Brown? Also I think we have another 2-4 guys that get a bump to a 4 star from the commits we already have. Emmanwori and Samson not being 4 stars are laughable, then Davis, maybe Westmoreland, and even Hixon could get that 4th star. I think we have a great shot to finish with somewhere around 9-12 4 stars when it’s all said and done as long as we keep who we have committed and the potential additions.

MLB Mock Draft

Projected as #16 and #17 pick in the first round. The #16 and #17 picks for the 2020 draft were valued at 3.7 and 3.6 million dollars according to Sporting News. This will be interesting to see if they pass that kind of money up to sit on the bench. Boosters better be reaching deep in their pockets to keep these two. Add to that Taisun Phommachanh out for the season with a torn achilles. If these two head to MLB, Clemson has D.J. Uiagalelei as there starter, and two walk on's as the backups.

The HURRICANE is definitely touching the UNIVERSITY today ….
Each player will receive $6,000.00 annually. That’s 90 players receiving monthly increments
of $500.00 for the NIL contract …

I saw we promoted Ragin to video coordinator. I thought that was Justin’s title.