THANK YOU for such an excellent job you did at yesterday's (22 May) Navy Safety Day in the Naval Annex. I was in your 10-1100 briefing and I just want to say it was a life-changing event certainly for me (and hopefully for the rest of that large crowd.)

Your presentation manner was absolutely spot on. You were thorough, accurate, entertaining, and deadly serious. Thanks for all that. Thanks, too, for your humor. It was probably the only way to get us through such a scary subject … and such a critically important subject.

Before dinner last night, I gathered my four children (10-19 years old) who were home and my wife around the table and told them exactly how serious it is to wear a seatbelt and to never, never drink and drive. I described quite a lot of what you showed us. Scary for young ears, but worth it.

I'm the guy who came up and talk to you, Scott, in the front of the room yesterday morning who's been through a jet plane crash (without a parachute) and whose daughter rolled our Suburban two years ago with all six kids, my why wife and me. Everybody made it out fine BECAUSE we had our seatbelts on. As I said -- ALL those gory medical procedures you described were done to me, and they were all done without anesthesia (after my plane crash). I still have periodic flashbacks on how horrible it was. I'm lucky to be alive. Thanks for the reminder of how seriously we have to take driving.

Thanks for sharing it with my Navy "shipmates", too. You made a difference yesterday.

Sincerely,
Brian