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BMC David Michael Ramsey (Surfman #374) is a highly decorated, retired U.S. Coast Guard Chief Boatswain’s Mate and federal law enforcement officer whose background directly aligns with high-level federal government and emergency management operations. As a certified “Surfman”—the absolute pinnacle of heavy-weather rescue and maritime command—his leadership capabilities map cleanly into national security, federal task forces, or agency operations.

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His core competencies for executive federal and White House-level government work include:

🚢 Crisis & Disaster Response Leadership

• Catastrophic Event Management: Commanded high-stakes surface rescue operations during historic national emergencies like Hurricanes Katrina and Harvey.
• Environmental Mitigation: Directed massive coastal oil spill containment operations, demonstrating an ability to manage complex multi-jurisdictional environmental crises.

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⚖️ Cross-Agency Interoperability

• Founding DHS Member: As an original member of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), he understands how to navigate the complex organizational structures of federal agencies.
• Tactical Operations: Extensive background in maritime border security, pursuit, and federal law enforcement interoperability makes him an asset for cross-agency task forces.

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🎖️ High-Stakes Decision Making

• AFRAS Gold Medal Recipient: Awarded the prestigious Association for Rescue at Sea (AFRAS) Gold Medal for executing a flawless life-saving operation in 25-to-35-foot breaking surf.
• Risk Calculation: Trained to calculate precise risk-versus-reward metrics in dynamic, life-or-death scenarios—a valuable trait for national security advisors and strategy councils.

🛠️ Deckplate Leadership

• Bridging Executive and Frontline Operations: As a Chief Petty Officer, his career was built on serving as the vital link between senior administration executives and boots-on-the-ground operators.

As our ancestors ventured out of eastern Africa, they branched off in diverse groups that crossed and recrossed the globe over tens of thousands of years. Some of their migrations can be traced through haplogroups, families of lineages that descend from a common ancestor. Your paternal haplogroup can reveal the path followed by the men of your paternal line.

275,000 years to just one man: the common ancestor of haplogroup A. Current evidence suggests he was one of thousands of men who lived in eastern Africa at the time. However, while his male-line descendants passed down their Y chromosomes generation after generation, the lineages from the other men died out. Over time his lineage alone gave rise to all other haplogroups that exist today.

For more than 100,000 years, your paternal-line ancestors gradually moved north, following available prey and resources as a shifting climate made new routes hospitable and sealed off others. Then, around 60,000 years ago, a small group ventured across the Red Sea and deeper into southwest Asia. Your ancestors were among these men, and the next step in their story is marked by the rise of haplogroup F-M89 in the Arabian Peninsula.

Passing through the Middle East, your paternal-line ancestors continued on to the steppes of Central Asia, vast grasslands stretching all the way from central Europe to the eastern edge of Asia. From its origin in the western steppes nearly 50,000 years ago, haplogroup K-M9 spread across most of the globe. In fact, nearly half of all paternal lineages outside of Africa are branches of haplogroup K.

The next step in your story can be to the common ancestor of haplogroup R, a man who likely lived in Central Asia between 30,000 and 35,000 years ago. The Ice Age was still in full swing, and for thousands of years his descendants roamed the vast steppes of the continent, where they hunted huge mammals like the mammoth.

Your ancestral path forked off again between 20,000 and 25,000 years ago in western Asia, at the beginning of the last great peak of the Ice Age. Massive glaciers covered northern Eurasia, but farther south in the Iranian Plateau your ancestors flourished. When the Ice Age finally gave way to our warmer climate nearly 11,500 years ago, a new era of migrations from the Middle East began and eventually carried haplogroup R-M343 across three continents.

Your paternal line stems from a branch of R-M343 called R-M269, one of the most prolific paternal lineages across western Eurasia. R-M269 arose roughly 10,000 years ago, as the people of the Fertile Crescent domesticated plants and animals for the first time. Around 8,000 years ago, the first farmers and herders began to push east into Central Asia and north into the Caucasus Mountains. Some of them eventually reached the steppes above the Black and Caspian Seas. There, they lived as pastoral nomads, herding cattle and sheep across the grasslands, while their neighbors to the south developed yet another crucial technology in human history: bronze smelting. As bronze tools and weaponry spread north, a new steppe culture called the Yamnaya was born.

Around 5,000 years ago, perhaps triggered by a cold spell that made it difficult to feed their herds, Yamnaya men spilled east across Siberia and down into Central Asia. To the west, they pushed down into the Balkans and to central Europe, where they sought new pastures for their herds and metal deposits to support burgeoning Bronze Age commerce. Over time, their descendants spread from central Europe to the Atlantic coast, establishing new trade routes and an unprecedented level of cultural contact and exchange in western Europe.The men from the steppes also outcompeted the local men as they went; their success is demonstrated in the overwhelming dominance of the R-M269 lineage in Europe. Over 80% of men in Ireland and Wales carry the haplogroup, as do over 60% of men along the Atlantic Coast from Spain to France. The frequency of R-M269 gradually decreases to the east, falling to about 30% in Germany, 20% in Poland, and 10-15% in Greece and Turkey. The haplogroup connects all these men to still others in the Iranian Plateau and Central Asia, where between 5 and 10% of men also bear the lineage.

The spread of haplogroup R-M269 in northern Ireland and Scotland was likely aided by men like Niall of the Nine Hostages. Perhaps more myth than man, Niall of the Nine Hostages is said to have been a King of Tara in northwestern Ireland in the late 4th century C.E. His name comes from a tale of nine hostages that he held from the regions he ruled over. Though the legendary stories of his life may have been invented hundreds of years after he died, genetic evidence suggests that the Uí Néill dynasty, whose name means “descendants of Niall,” did in fact trace back to just one man who bore a branch of haplogroup R-M269.

The Uí Néill ruled to various degrees as kings of Ireland from the 7th to the 11th century C.E. In the highly patriarchal society of medieval Ireland, their status allowed them to have outsized numbers of children and spread their paternal lineage each generation. In fact, researchers have estimated that between 2 and 3 million men with roots in north-west Ireland are paternal-line descendants of Niall.

Druze village in Israel.

Haplogroup X is particularly common among the Druze of the Levant; they exhibit much higher levels of both X1 and X2 than nearly any other population in the world. This unique and isolated ethnic group of no more than a few hundred thousand individuals can be found in the mountainous regions of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. They practice a very specific religion related to Islam, which is usually closed to outsiders and rarely marry non-Druze.

Scholars used to believe that the high levels of X were due to the fact that the Druze are so genetically isolated from neighboring peoples and thus have unusual levels of this haplogroup. Instead, it appears that the presence of X at these levels is simply a genetic remnant of how common X used to be in the region. Over the past several thousand years, as haplogroup X dwindled among the people of the Middle East, its presence among the Druze remained relatively unchanged. It turns out that the Druze serve not only as a window into the cultural history of the Middle East, but a window into the genetic history of the region as well.

You descend from a long line of female ancestors that can be traced back to eastern Africa over 150,000 years ago. These are the people of your maternal line, and your maternal haplogroup sheds light on their story.

single woman who lived in eastern Africa between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago. Though she was one of perhaps thousands of women alive at the time, only the diverse branches of her haplogroup have survived to today. The story of your maternal line begins with her.

Your branch of L is haplogroup L3, which arose from a woman who likely lived in eastern Africa between 60,000 and 70,000 years ago. While many of her descendants remained in Africa, one small group ventured east across the Red Sea, likely across the narrow Bab-el-Mandeb into the tip of the Arabian Peninsula.

Your story continues with haplogroup N, one of two branches that arose from L3 in southwestern Asia. Researchers have long debated whether they arrived there via the Sinai Peninsula, or made the hop across the Red Sea at the Bab-el-Mandeb. Though their exact routes are disputed, there is no doubt that the women of haplogroup N migrated across all of Eurasia, giving rise to new branches from Portugal to Polynesia.

One of those branches is haplogroup X, which traces back to a woman who lived approximately 32,000 years ago. Her descendants spread dramatically through most of Eurasia after the glaciers receded at the end of the Ice Age around 15,000 years ago, scattering the haplogroup from northern Africa and western Europe all the way to North America.

Your maternal line stems from a branch of haplogroup X called X2, an offshoot that has spread far and wide. Members of X2 can trace their maternal lines back to a woman who lived during the peak of the Ice Age approximately 19,000 years ago, somewhere in the Middle East or the Caucasus region of western Eurasia. As the climate warmed and the massive continental glaciers covering much of the Northern Hemisphere began to retreat, people on the X2 branch joined a rapid northward expansion into the previously ice-covered zone.

One group of women and their families headed west, hugging the Mediterranean coastline of Europe. That group seeded the higher levels of X2 that can be found today in southern European countries like Spain, Italy, Greece,and Turkey. A second group carried X2 eastward into Central Asia. The X2 haplogroup occasionally appears among people even farther east in Asia, such as the traditionally nomadic Altai of southwestern Siberia. However, the few Altai individuals who do belong to X2 stem from a branch that perfectly matches one found in the Caucasus, suggesting a second X2 migration less than 6,000 years ago.

Its current distribution stretches from Scotland to Morocco and eastward to Siberia. One particular branch, X2a, is found exclusively in North America.

2020 a accused of capital riots wrongly taken to TheOceans PortOfCorpusChristi Texas

2021 wrongly taken to The Palms Brownsville Tx

2022 my home gets broke into I call 911 I’m wrongly accused become a trustee loose everything stole gatorGrippHD never paid me 2014 to date now it’s called PullSetGrip sad I built that company and website Gator-Gripp .com

2023 more break ins more vandalism

2024 more theft more identity theft more gun theft become a farmer classified Italian mafia boss get searched for dead body and kilos of cocaine all horrible attacks I say not to weapons of mass destruction and training them! Evil assholes I would never work with you to destroy ports in America or Mexico get offered $50million say no

2025 more unlawful charges more unlawful wellness checks total loss of all property stolen identity for years now stolen military medical and birth records get called terrorist more vehicle vandalism get put in San Patricio county texas loose everything I owned more death threats more guns pulled on me get offered $100million say no

2026 get everything stolen from Salvation Army loose everything more death threats because I said no to gangs cartel mafia outlaw motorcycle clubs and corruption city county portland texas Corpus Christi Texas more evil more attacks get beat to near death my new Harley Davidson ruined

Yep 1 home 3 apartments 19 hotels Corpus Christi portland Texas Cancun Mérida Mexico staying alive walking 1000’s of miles no vehicles still paying for them when I had insurance to cover the accident remember they chased me out of a hotel and tried to kill me the day I crashed in my Tacoma same thing happened in my tundra all this stolen money property identity and I sit trying to recover from more injuries they even stole my wallet and luggage sold my sperm Yes cops drug me out of my truck with knees elbows closed fists and kicks hit me from the top of my head to my toes fractured my skull my left eye socket ripped left eye broke nose crushed nasal passages broken jaw skull fractured left ear canal crushed throat and voice box permanently damaged cervical spine fractures torn tendons both shoulders fractured my arms broke my hands and fingers fractured vertebrae thoracic spine herniated discs herniated L5/S1 permanent nerve damage S1 nerve line fractured femur tibia fibula fractures broken feet toes permanent nerve damage vision loss hearing loss took me months to be able to eat solid foods and still will forever have traumatic brain injury memory loss all because I ran out of gas and was previously injured san Patricio county jail they made me walk with torn tendons and trauma to head neck from san Patricio county jail to nw hospital cal Allen texas like 30 fucking miles A few weeks later pulled me out of my truck and knocked me out multi times causing injuries listed above and all that happened was my Tacoma ran out of gas and I was accused of being a mafia boss terrorist this happened a few months ago I’m still beat to hell! So yeah horrible when I’m a Retired Federal Law Enforcement Officer Coast Guard Small Arms Instructor force manager ready for operations inspector Chief of operations ran tactical pursuit missions search and rescue oil spill recovery you name it I did it for America but for them to come after me that’s horrible specially after what I did for Alaska Canada Oregon Washington California Texas Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Florida The Pacific The Gulf Of Mexico/America Mexico Central South America Military Agencies and Law Enforcement spent from 1992-1998 training 98-18 serving then 2018 to date hunting down the evil that destroyed me! Sad I get the false label I loose everything- I’m the 374th CoastGuard Surfman and Founding Member of Department Of Homeland Security DavidMichaelRamsey After all the government spent training me working me rebuilding me 3 lumbar fusions cervical fusion bilateral shoulder wrist reconstruction knee surgery testicular reconstruction 4 years acupuncture 3x a week holistic healing program that got me off 26 prescriptions I just don’t see why America would let the close to $100million they spent on me go with this much destruction when ℹ extremely valuable to any nation I would work with gladly