Are you insinuating high ranking officers don't do PT?

i lived on-base in Oklahoma in formerly designated field grade officer housing.  i lived one block from my AWACS Squadron Commander (O-6).  i was 2 blocks from the Air Logistics Center Commander, a Brigadier General (O-7).

One day I'm doing a 5:30AM run to prepare for my upcoming annual 1.5 mile test.  This old geezer in a floppy brim hat ran toward me and said good morning as we passed.  I thought he must be a retiree staying at the VOQ right next to where we met. 

It wasn't until the second time I saw him running that I recognized him.  It was the general.  This is him after being promoted to Major General (O-8, 2 Stars):



One reason you don't see O-6 and up at PT is they either have exclusive workout facilities, or they exercise early in the morning before most people are awake and crowding the gym.  They usually have more control over their schedules, so they can pick times when fewer people are doing PT.

The O-6 i mentioned played racquetball where I played during lunch.  He had a standing reservation daily where the rest of us had to start dialing the phones at exactly 2PM to snag a reservation the next day.  He normally played at 10am if I recall -- just before the lunch crowd showed up.

How inconsiderate of those people

Take them out to the shooting range.  Do a tour of these areas at 1am with each member individually.  Bring in a whole bunch of homeless and addicts to the neighborhood board meeting.

The hypocrisy is how often he opines on topics he has zero knowledge of or experience with.

But everyone else needs to shut up unless they are part of the group being criticized.   

Not on COD :facepalm:

When you post a serious consideration of the issue we can discuss it further.

I don't have to prove a negative. 

The fact you think that's a realistic and fair comparison for your failure to prove the opposite is not surprising.

You are absolutely right but thats not the question I was addressing. The question is gun vs knife and acting as if the gun is not more effective than the knife.

I think that without knowing what was said it would be hard to say it was a crime or a justified presentation. He didn't look scared and the other customers seemed oblivious but who knows, maybe the guy in the high vis shirt whispered a threat? I think it is really going to rely on what the witnesses heard otherwise it seems a he said she said situation.

The guy in the high vis shirt's comment that he would have body slammed the guy is of very little value in my opinion for two reasons.
1. If he didn't make the statement at the time it cannot be retroactively used to justify self defense. You have to judge a person's actions by the information they had at the time.
2. It is pretty standard male bravado to claim how he would have won the fight after it was avoided. I can't count the times I heard someone say "I would have licked that guy"

The way he handled the gun is disconcerting though. Not only did it look like he might have pointed the gun in the direction of other people present but there was also two individuals between him and the guy in the high vis shirt. If he did have to raise his gun and fire he could have shot one of them on accident. It looks like his finger was off the trigger at least.