Improvise, adapt, overcome in the great outdoors (St. Petersburg Times)
**By Terry Tomalin, Times Outdoors-Fitness Editor**
Thursday, December 29, 2011
_Improvise, adapt and overcome_
– unofficial Marine Corps mantra
The camping trip started off like most others: kids screaming, music blaring,
cellphone ringing — so I didn’t hear the sport-utility vehicle’s rear hatch
open and the gear hit the street.
At some point later I glanced in the rearview mirror and noticed the open
door. I did a U-turn, retraced my path and drove all the way home only to
discover that essential equipment had fallen out.
I lost a tent, cooler and backpack full of my personal camping gear. My mind
raced as I tried to think of each item in the backpack: jeans, hiking socks
and my beloved Boy Scout jacket.
Then I remembered: Oh, no! My Ranger knife!
The Gerber locking blade was a present from my friend Jim Wilson, chief ranger
at Fort De Soto County Park. The knife, which bears the insignia of the U.S.
Army Rangers, had been given to him by his son-in-law, Lt. Col. Rob Boone of
the 82nd Airborne. Boone, a descendant of the legendary frontiersman Daniel
Boone, had carried the knife with him in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I was …
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