Autorotation: Hitting the spot
Joined: May 2002
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From: Downeast
Harmon's role is loosely based upon my service with that august investigative organization......really! You see the badge he wears.....why I got one of them too....and there the reality differs from the show.
The NCIS has improved greatly since I was there....both by my leaving and from other changes in leadership...funding...and acceptance of modern procedures and policies unlike the time I was there when we were about thirty years behind the FBI. Now days....I would put the NCIS up against the FBI and give some points to boot.
I was around during the time of the Walker Spy Case, the Moscow Embassy Marine Det fiasco, Tail Hook, and some other great examples of how not to do an investigation. The infamous SEAL investigation of Seal Team Six was the ultimate embarassment! Interviewing Hyman Rickover was a hoot too!
During Irangate....I was doing security for the Israeli's when they were meeting with Ollie North and got to meet Netanyahu.
The ultimate thrill was doing a body guard detail for Imelda Marcos.....with one hour notice on a Sunday at Subic Bay!
We had some good times!
Such as loitering around convenience stores in the Washington DC area with Uzi's under our coats.....buying the beer for the pizza after a PSD shift.....and praying some knucklehead showed up with a Saturday Night Special to rob the place while we were buying the beer. It would have been a very sad ending to his crime spree.....when three or four of us opened up on him. It would take longer for the empty brass to quit rolling around than for him to retire from a life of crime!
Ah...but now I am in my rocking chair....thinking of the good ol' days!
The NCIS has improved greatly since I was there....both by my leaving and from other changes in leadership...funding...and acceptance of modern procedures and policies unlike the time I was there when we were about thirty years behind the FBI. Now days....I would put the NCIS up against the FBI and give some points to boot.
I was around during the time of the Walker Spy Case, the Moscow Embassy Marine Det fiasco, Tail Hook, and some other great examples of how not to do an investigation. The infamous SEAL investigation of Seal Team Six was the ultimate embarassment! Interviewing Hyman Rickover was a hoot too!
During Irangate....I was doing security for the Israeli's when they were meeting with Ollie North and got to meet Netanyahu.
The ultimate thrill was doing a body guard detail for Imelda Marcos.....with one hour notice on a Sunday at Subic Bay!
We had some good times!
Such as loitering around convenience stores in the Washington DC area with Uzi's under our coats.....buying the beer for the pizza after a PSD shift.....and praying some knucklehead showed up with a Saturday Night Special to rob the place while we were buying the beer. It would have been a very sad ending to his crime spree.....when three or four of us opened up on him. It would take longer for the empty brass to quit rolling around than for him to retire from a life of crime!
Ah...but now I am in my rocking chair....thinking of the good ol' days!
