Navy Seals...

[Sarg]

I sort of think that being crazy is part of the membership requirements. There was a time there when we thought the Assoc. might fall apart. The WWII guys were trying to run it and they were up in their eighties. It would have been a great loss to us all. But one of the present day SOS outfits jumped in and with the young folks running it, we get a shiny magazine with great stories each month.

These men and women of the new SOS units are just incredible. FACs, Parameds, Talons, you name it.

Hats off to them.

Sarg

 

[vikingr12]

Sarg,

It has changed so much I cannot even relate to it. And qualifying for PJ is a monumental task these days. I swear they looked the other way half the time when I went through training. And they were just beginning the stuff they do nowadays. CCT teams began in 'Nam, Laos, Cambodia. My "pipeline" training was whatever some REMF decided I needed. Now it seems pretty slick.

I read where the training alone is enough to give you PTSD.

 

[Sarg]

And I'll bet your Dad said not to volunteer for anything! Hee, hee! They's say "hey we want you to go out and do something stupid and crazy"! And that little old right hand would start the way towards the ceiling....

Naw, you're right, tho'. The one's they're turning out these days are all business. And damn good at it. Still, this old fart misses the crazy stupid days. It's the "ass deep in alligators" moments I can live without.

Sarg

 

[Tim Cake]

Having never been a SPECOPS person I can't relate.
At my size, I would be one of the world's biggest targets on a :sneaky:snoop 'n' poop mission:sneaky:

 

[Tim Cake]

Brothers and Sisters... I have alot of squid friends, I just think its weird that we finally got Osama and then 20 of the SEALS who caught him got killed barely a month later. I had a similar experience from my Force Detachment in Africa hunting down Adid, we got him and now there is only one person left, (I'm not saying who, but I'm sure you can figure it out). Just wondering what everyone else thinks about this...

Mohammed Farah Aideed was a SCUMBAG....Good riddance to him and his buddies. I hope the multinational naval force gets his pirate pals.

 

[CAFTT0607]

Maybe I'm too simplistic in my outlook but I can't think of a damn thing that we need in Afghanistan! You can not have a battle of wits with unarmed individuals and stupid can't be fixed! I know that I'm casting a steriotypical stone at all people of that geographic area but after my time spent in Iraq, I still feel like it was such a waste and not worth the lives that have been lost or changed forever. I'd be less than honest if I didn't say that I've developed a predjudice against certain people of a certain faith. Okay! I hate them and I don't trust them and I don't like to be around them!

I completely agree. 4 combat tours to the ME over 11 years and I've learned that some people were not meant to live in domocracy. That is why they always end up with a dictator after a few months or a year. They have to be lead and ruled with an iron fist or you get chaos and anarchy. Most Americans have no idea how different the Islamic Arab world is from ours...no idea. One of the tours I spent 365 days inbedded with Iraqi armed forces and it was ...I can't even describe it. I do hate them, don't trust them and don't want to be around them...that is just the facts!

 

[Tim Cake]

I completely agree. 4 combat tours to the ME over 11 years and I've learned that some people were not meant to live in domocracy. That is why they always end up with a dictator after a few months or a year. They have to be lead and ruled with an iron fist or you get chaos and anarchy. Most Americans have no idea how different the Islamic Arab world is from ours...no idea. One of the tours I spent 365 days inbedded with Iraqi armed forces and it was ...I can't even describe it. I do hate them, don't trust them and don't want to be around them...that is just the facts!

The Middle East is a "very unusual" section of this world... to say the least. Like you, I have no desire whatsoever to revisit that place.

 

[CAFTT0607]

"very unusual"...that is one way to say it...I prefer the term "f*cked up"...but that is just me. :D

 

[Ned]

The Middle East is a "very unusual" section of this world... to say the least. Like you, I have no desire whatsoever to revisit that place.

So when were you there, then?

 

[CAFTT0607]

Just FYI
- 1998 Operation Southern Watch/Operation Desert Fox
- 2001 Operation Enduring Freedom
- 2006 Operation Iraqi Freedom
- 2009 Operation Iraqi Freedom

Plus a few other that I can't list here.

 

[Ned]

Plus a few other that I can't list here.

Not you mate, sorry, I don't doubt your credentials for one second.

 

[Anglesachse]

Dooh!

Hey guys did you see that?.............thats the fog of war that is!