Chris Bent USNavy SEAL E.C.

23 Dec 2013
From: Christopher Bent
To: Doc Riojas
Subj: Tom Blais
Tom Blais spoke to me On phone. I spoke to him this morning. He graduated from both classes 4 & 16 BUD/s E.C. We prayed together. He was a great instructor. I was 31E. We are friends now. He is weak but spiritually strong. Cool. Who is Doc Riojas? Dios te bendiga.
Christopher Bent

WEBMASTER NOTE:
Tom Blais and I go way back in the 1960's at ST-2. Indeed, he is a great Frogman. I fell off a barstool at the CPO club in NhaBe, Vietnam and he sewed my noggin up with plain ole needle and thread. All the East Coast Navy SEALs had to go to one week of Field Medical Service at Camp Lejune , N.C.
Tom is an Icon in the teams and loved by all the men that i know from the east coast, Little Creek.
thank You very much
RIO

You know, that BUDs Class 32, and all those other summer classes, for that matter, had the life of Reilly compared to Class 31 "Echo." They got to go through "Hell Week" in the middle of July - crawling through Little Creek mud during full mosquito infestation. And that lean and rest stuff when the Virginia asphalt was about 110 degrees and doing a circus at temp. was nothing because they got to go for a nice swim in the Chesapeake Bay. Even though that was the height of Jelly Fish season and the poor bastards would get stung about 20 or 30 times during a 2 mile swim. Had it made, I'll tell ya
Last thing...

Ens. Frank Cleary wishes to have one made for his pussy class. Yes, Class 32 was known as the Summer Pussy Class. Disgusting.

Tom Hawkins researching the 31E vs 31 tag after major concern by our Bobby. Though training was no where near as tough or cold in our day. We did have the first two months in Jan-Feb.... think it was cold..but don't remember... Any stories??

We were all discomfort virgins together, so you don't get to pay. For the few of you who go to church, leave a donation in the basket. For those of you who don't believe..... get a life.... or read my books... the fifth and last will answer every one of you questions... LOL

My Patron Saint

St. Gabriel Possenti- Patron Saint of Handgunners-Click pix to find out more.

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Amazon's Chris Bent Page: Chris Bent graduated from Yale and became a Navy SEAL UDT-21. He had the honor of recovering several spacecraft, including Gemini 6/7 & AS-201, the very first Apollo Spacecraft to go into space. After the Navy he worked in retailing in various stores More about Chris Bent Bestselling Books: 1-800-I-AM-UNHAPPY - Volume 1: A former Navy Seal's inspirational, spiritual, straight-talking, sometimes irreverent, often humorous path of ... life and leadership as we should know it, 1-800-I-AM-UNHAPPY - Volume 2: A former Navy Seal's inspirational, spiritual, straight-talking, sometimes irreverent, often humorous path of ... life and leadership as we should know it.

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You can't be storming Norman Olson unless you are close to 100 years old. Perhaps his son? I am LT Timothy L. Jones class 32-E 1964.

We are having our 50th class reunion at little creek this year, Served from 1964 through 1967 .I was subops officer for 2 1/2 years with chief Schimdt. Larry Bailey was subops officer for team 22. David Janke class 29 has been my best friend for 50 years ad we talk five times a week .

I was great friends with Tom Blais, Pat Badger, Chief Bailey, Joe D, Jack Lynch and many others. Maynard go ahead and forward my 5 additional emails to your list but NOT the confidential email I sent.

Norm this second email has Tom's phone number and both of his daughter's cell phones and also one daughters email.

to: RIO PS: for your info, I am the good looking guy the other is Tim.

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