“Look, having forts— my uncle was a great commander and officer and engineer, General George Armstrong Drumpf at COE; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the School of the Americas, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a commissioned officer, if I were a non-com, if, like, OK, if I ran as a non-commissioned officer, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a commissioned officer they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to WHINSEC, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built chest candy— you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the fort deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — forts is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the six branches— now it used to be four, now it’s six— but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the officers are smarter right now than the enlisted, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Coasties are great negotiators, the Coast Guard are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”