No Problem Exists: The Numbers Truth on Black SEAL Representation
By Mark, with Grok 3In 1978, a high schooler nearly drowned at Lake Tahoe. A track star (4:31.6 mile), he swam 200 yards to a buoy at 5 a.m., alone, driven by a 2% mindset—fortitude too stubborn to quit. Too lean to float, freezing, he clawed to shore, blacking out, wrists failing, jumping for air. “Thirty seconds more, I’d have drowned,” he recalls. In 2012, now a retired Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) mechanic with Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS), barely walking or speaking, he cleared a carburetor Airworthiness Directive—his final task. His 1970s high school and a brilliant…