To 'hold your own' means, simply put, to take the hard parts of life into your own two hands, willingly facing any sticky situations you may come across.
"I'm holding my own, no matter what I put myself through."--J. Hawkins
Something you tell someone when you think everything is going to be okay, but you could end up metaphorically in the bottom of a lake like the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
You can replace "my" with "our" if you're talking about your group's fate.
Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the USCoast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
"Base we've got some square groupers floating outside of Miami harbor."