I did an 18 yr stint under chief petty officer black, I never wanted anything more to do with the military.
If you didn't figure it out from that, my last name is black
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I think it may be a gift, although sometimes it feels like a curse. Noone wants me to rude in their vehicle because I'll hear or feel something wrong, but everyone wants me to go with them to look at a vehicle, unless they think I'll say don't buy it and they really want it lol.
Many of the military guys I've know just marched, they didn't have much for critical thinking skills. I teach my kids and anyone else who will listen to look, and listen to what is going on around you(situational awareness, like the military should teach), Solomon said "I looked and I saw", he was not only looking, but paying attention to what he was looking at, hence the "saw". Either that or he found a tree while looking
. Probably a cedar of Lebanon!
https://arboriculture.wordpress.com/2016/05/18/the-cedars-of-lebanon-and-the-temple-of-solomon/