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THE 50S FROGS ZINE
Volume 13 page 5 (cont)
When it didn’t sell immediately and they were anxious to get the heck
out of Dodge…Paul bought it so my mom and dad could go to Oregon where they settled for 9 months before
my dad himself passed away from a massive heart attack in November 1972.
Editor: Bud Juric was another great frog. When the team was playing flag
football, Bud’s thumb was torn away. But he taped it up, stayed and
played the game.
JERRY CLARK: I
remember Chief McNally as an instructor in UDT training (Buds), class 33 in
1964. He was a Senior Chief Petty Officer. As I recall he was older but
forty was old to me in those days. He seemed old in an ageless way. However
he was strong and agile. He could run backwards chewing a cigar longer and
faster than a trainee could run forward. (Tiz Morrison style).
You would need to be here to appreciate Tiz. He knew how much we could take
and gave us our issue. He seemed to respect us but
there was no excuse for non compliance at the 100% level. He was the Spirit
of the teams and my hero. Oh yeah, he tried to kill me the first
day of training because I showed up in good physical shape. He took me far into soft sand with running and push ups as
body could stand.
He told me when I was tired and ready to quit to just focus on moving one foot in front of the other. Another
thing he told me was in life you will have to fight. When you finish the
fight don’t stay around and take
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bows, leave the scene. I will never
forget this great man.
Thanks Gerald Clark, UDT 11, SEAL Team One, Vietnam Combat Veteran.
DENNIS MCORMACK: Paul
certainly demonstrated a fixity of purpose, as his whole life appeared to be
centered around the theme of success coupled with an
innate desire to develop his full potential. If we were to look over
Paul’s life we would see that he was a driven man, and in the final
analysis did in fact achieve that which he sought. Paul’s
military career carried him through the tail end of WWII, Korea and Vietnam
and, although almost constantly experiencing pain and discomfort from
gout most of his adult life, he was never heard to complain or let that
detract from his strong desire to be the best. Tiz Morrison was
one of the first to encounter Paul, when Tiz was serving as an instructor for
Class 7 in 1953. Tiz reports at one point in training, Paul’s
feet were so swollen from the gout that he encouraged Paul to take a
medical drop and try again in the next class. I do not have to to tell you
that Paul did not take Tiz’s advice, and Paul finished training
but did so ahead of many of his classmates.
My first contact with Paul was some 49 years ago when I graduated from
BUDS and was assigned to Paul’s 4th Platoon in UDT12. I had
thought things would be a little easier physically, when I got over to the
teams, but my introduction to PT ala Paul McNally style soon taught me the
real meaning of flutter-kick jumping jack, push up, and assorted other
contortionist-like exercise. Paul helped
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