{"id":1681,"date":"2009-09-20T23:54:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T06:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2009-09-21T13:51:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T20:51:49","slug":"top-secret-sunday-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1681","title":{"rendered":"Top Secret Sunday Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palos Verdes has been muddy for the last week, and driving by Old Marineland Saturday, it didn’t look like conditions would change for Sunday Services.<\/p>\n

\"TopI was offered a chance to help with a top secret mission – I would get free food, drink, a Divemaster’s pay and would get to do my tiny part in helping to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice, or at least help to keep the world safe for democracy.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t sure why I was offered the spot – maybe my cage fighting abilities or superior IQ?<\/p>\n

Maybe because I work cheap and I’m expendable?<\/p>\n

Maybe because the driver wanted to use the carpool lane?<\/p>\n

\"Top<\/p>\n

The place where we went is so top secret, the government denies the place even exists; where it is, I’m not exactly sure as I had to wear a blindfold for an hour while being driven in the back of a windowless van.<\/p>\n

\"Painted<\/p>\n

There is a spot on the way in to the top secret government facility that has a bunch of painted rocks on the side of the road; the unclassified story behind the rocks is that they are painted by Army and Marines as they are deployed.<\/p>\n

Whether the rocks’ real purpose is to communicate with space aliens, or maybe form some kind of code when seen from the air, is pure conjecture.<\/p>\n

Where we had to go was slightly outside the top secret city…<\/p>\n

\"Big<\/p>\n

Are those big ass bullets, or what?<\/p>\n

Missed it by that much…<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A person stands in front of a tank – his identity has been concealed for national security reasons.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

We finished what we went there to do and decided to debrief at the secret bar inside the secret government facility that doesn’t technically exist.<\/p>\n

\"Airconditioning,<\/p>\n

Air conditioning, beer and football in the middle of hundreds of miles of 100 degree burning dangerous desert is a welcomed luxury.<\/p>\n

We actually spent more time debriefing than working – sort of like my traditional 45 minute dive, followed by three hours of debriefing.<\/p>\n

Except for the blindfold, the drive back was pleasant and uneventful – at least that’s what I remember.<\/p>\n

I was told that I can talk about my part in the secret mission in 2159 and that I should commit suicide, before being tortured, if I am ever captured by Al Qaeda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Palos Verdes has been muddy for the last week, and driving by Old Marineland Saturday, it didn’t look like conditions would change for Sunday Services. I was offered a chance to help with a top secret mission – I would get free food, drink, a Divemaster’s pay and would get to do my tiny part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}