Pardon me, BB62, but I hadn't made any comment that suggest Gutshot was at fault for his pointing-out-of-my-lackings; I even re-read my response to ensure that I hadn't made mention of him being at fault.
Yea, I admitted it, and came to terms, that my Situtational Awareness, from time to time, begs addressing and strengthening; At the time of the incident, I was hungry, and tired, and any person who was in my position, and was not military trained, would have had less-than-optimal situational awareness. But I'm not making a point to defend, and say its okay to be bad at SA, I'm just saying that, yes I had poor SA and poor judgement of my surroundings, and yes I was far more concerned with eating and getting fed, than I was of punishing someone who verbally and possibly psyically assaulted me; and for both items, I am at fault. Please, I ask, don't read into Gutshots', or my own, comments as fault-pointing, more as Gutshot pointing out an obvious trait that I am guilty of showing on more than one occasion, and myself admitting to not being on-par as often as I should be.
I do wish to ask the people who are engaging in the debate about the actions, or in-actions, of the officer involved; I appreciate that you all have an interest in what should have been done, and what could have taken place, but it's not helping anyone that the conversation derailed things. Sure, my post was a complaint, and an admission of my failings during a possibly-construed hostile encounter, but that doesn't mean we have to go on at-length in a distracting manner. I'll leave it up to a moderator to decide if the post should be locked, or to let the conversation continue. My intent was to make people aware of what happened to myself, because I could. And because I was wanting to share my experiance with others, as is our duty on a forum dedicated to our cause, we should, and must, inform our fellows, of all our encounters, good, bad, ugly, nice, pretty, mean, boring, thrilling, so that others can learn and can discuss what should have, could have, would have, been done differently.
Just please, don't fight amongst each other.
Also, my appologies for my late response, I had to spend four hours yesterday decided which of the many verieties of pork, and beef ribs I wanted to buy for the grilling tomorrow at cave run lake that I'll be having with my brother, and his wife.