[Apocalypse Now]

The pollution in the Mississippi R. was probably the biggest risk he took. Toxic waste, human waste, pathogens ,you say ,tough guy Marine ,I say dumbass.

 

[Maurepas]

You jarheads are going to love this. I'm just hearing your oooooeeeww rahh's now.

SOURCE

Swimmer in Miss. River startles officials

The Associated Press

A U.S. Marine startled Vicksburg officials when he went for a winter swim in the Mississippi River.

Staff Sgt. Ryan Hoover, 25, was in his native Vicksburg on leave when he donned a wetsuit Monday and went swimming with the air temperature below freezing outside.

Several people alerted authorities. It’s much more common to see barges in the swift moving river than a person, especially this time of year.

Coast Guard officials say Hoover was picked up by a private boat when its crew told him authorities were concerned and “suggested” he abandon his swim or law enforcement would come get him. He seemed unfazed by the chilly temperatures of strong currents.

Hoover says he was preparing for a future attempt to swim across the river. He said he carried a backpack of food that “would help keep me alive if the current carried me to hell or something.”

He said he had planned to swim several miles down the river then jog roughly six miles to his family’s home.

“I’ve been swimming in this river since I was a kid,” he said. “I do want to apologize to all of the law enforcement officials who had their day disturbed because of me. I really didn’t mean to cause this ruckus.”

Hoover was questioned by a Warren County sheriff’s deputy and two Vicksburg police officers. He was released after Coast Guard officials made clear that the swim was legal, said Sheriff Martin Pace.

Federal and local officials said swimming in the Mississippi River is legal, though dangerous.

 

[wengo1776]

The Few, the Proud, the Marines.

 

[Herd Sniper]

Way to go, Marine! I love it!!! Now if he were airborne, he would have parachuted into the river at oh-dark-thirty from 35,000 feet with a smuggler's rig and dark chute, landed in the river, started swimming 12 miles and then jogged the next 25 miles to get back home. But, after all, he is only a Marine...

 

[Brimasmom]

Hoover says he was preparing for a future attempt to swim across the river. He said he carried a backpack of food that “would help keep me alive if the current carried me to hell or something.”

I just love this line. It's something my own Jarhead son would say.

 

[Herne]

Way to go, Marine! I love it!!! Now if he were airborne, he would have parachuted into the river at oh-dark-thirty from 35,000 feet with a smuggler's rig and dark chute, landed in the river, started swimming 12 miles and then jogged the next 25 miles to get back home. But, after all, he is only a Marine...

Maybe, but I hear he was swimming UPstream :

 

[1st MAW]

The few, the proud, semper fi, to all my brother marines!!!


Herd sniper....you too, "''air doggie''.....

 

[Herd Sniper]

Air doggie??? Me?? Semper Fi, 1st MAW. Hope you had a Merry Christmas and a good New Year too.

 

[Creek Walker]

Well done Staff Sgt. Ryan Hoover. Semper Fi

 

[Sam Reeves]

I thinks it's great that some men are still men while others are sitting crossed legged at a coffee like a bunch of girls.

 

[Rabble]

Now that Jar Head gotta great big set of COOOOLD brass ones! Semper phi!

 

[hanklet0]

Thats a frickin motovated devil right there. I didnt here of any other service members tryin anything like that.......the few the proud:thumb:

 

[Sigma40]

Staff Sgt at 25. Makes me sick that I got out. I could be an E-6. And to think that I'd almost be done with my second enlistment.