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TheWeedNumber posted:My face when the infantry has a better plan than SPECIAL OPERATORS of NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE. See in the navy your rank is not just petty officer 1st class or chief fuckknuckles. You’re HM1 or SO1 or whatever two letter rate+# for the enlisted types. #justnavythings rank is petty officer 1st class, rating is SO1. posting this now so Mr. Nice! doesn't later. I know it doesn't really matter and it's just a technicality but seriously if I didn't post this Mr. Nice! would type up like two paragraphs about the topic or something. one time I asked him a question about sea power via text, like a simple one when I was studying for advancement, and he called me within a minute and gave like a 15 minute lecture on the history of sea power anyway I don't know where I'm going with any of this, I just really don't want to study
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maffew buildings posted:rank is petty officer 1st class, rating is SO1. posting this now so Mr. Nice! doesn't later. I know it doesn't really matter and it's just a technicality but seriously if I didn't post this Mr. Nice! would type up like two paragraphs about the topic or something. one time I asked him a question about sea power via text, like a simple one when I was studying for advancement, and he called me within a minute and gave like a 15 minute lecture on the history of sea power Thanks for the save…shipmate.
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Pretend I posted like 20  emojis after that shipmate. No but seriously, thanks fam. We dodged a bullet there.
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Dec 10, 2022 01:40
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i bet i've destroyed more equipment than most seals
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Dec 10, 2022 02:00
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You have to love the Friday night twitter files dumps that amount to "people at twitter doing their job". It's loving pathetic.
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Dec 10, 2022 02:32
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:i bet i've destroyed more equipment than most seals My father saved the city of New Orleans (or at least, the Gretna side of it) from being flooded by a Senior Chief SEAL in 1983. I typed the whole story but thought better of posting it. So just trust me.
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Dec 10, 2022 02:38
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:i bet i've destroyed more equipment than most seals No, you don’t even come close to a SEAL in terms of number of and price of things completely hosed up by the Trident boys. No doubt you can gently caress up a multi million dollar yacht or a ferry, but have you hosed up and compromised a billion dollar Program? Because the SEALs did. See: Neptunes Spear.
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One of the things about Luttrell is that Lone Survivor is complete fiction. He put his weapon down while they were getting ambushed; and when he was recovered he was discovered to have his full load of magazines still on him. He’s admitted it, but it took years and he’s still cashing those royalty checks. IIRC text messages from the SEALs who turned in Eddie Gallagher were later presented at his trial, with one set where they called Luttrell a coward being used as evidence to suggest they were a bunch of whiny millennials who hate the military rather than professionals reporting their psychotic chief. If Delta and Army SOF have problems, they’re at least better about handling it in house rather than having it turn to tell-all exposes.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:i bet i've destroyed more equipment than most seals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7KsXwO6Ymw
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GD_American posted:My father saved the city of New Orleans (or at least, the Gretna side of it) from being flooded by a Senior Chief SEAL in 1983. why would you do this post it
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Dec 10, 2022 03:09
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GD_American posted:My father saved the city of New Orleans (or at least, the Gretna side of it) from being flooded by a Senior Chief SEAL in 1983. As a New Orleans native I need to know this. Tell me please.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:No, you don’t even come close to a SEAL in terms of number of and price of things completely hosed up by the Trident boys. Imma Google but go off champ, tell me how they hosed the pooch on this.
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Dec 10, 2022 03:15
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Just pppooosssttt
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https://twitter.com/jacksettleman/status/1601397864051396613?t=k4kYfNgGTPqjHpMsNexNxA&s=19
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TheWeedNumber posted:Imma Google but go off champ, tell me how they hosed the pooch on this. Ever hear of a Stealth Blackhawk before May 2nd, 2011? Nope? There is a reason for that. There’s also a reason why you’ve heard of them since May of 2011 and that reason is:  SEAL’s can’t do demo or sanitize for poo poo We’re talking Team 6 guys, no less.This is all a matter of public record, I’d be shocked if it weren’t all in the Wikipedia Articles. It was definitely in the NYT and WashPo and some other outlets.
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For the record, I know these guys can outperform me in any physical task. They couldn’t become SEALs otherwise. But goddamn the incompetence is near universal- they’re not a healthy community. I have no idea what MARSOC’s capabilities are, but I feel like the USMC could handle taking over the SEAL mission set as a part of MARSOC far cheaper than anyone else, and likely with less war criming and book writing.
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Dec 10, 2022 03:41
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Water beneath the Walls was a good book about Army and Marine Corps fuckups in WW2 that led to naval special warfare exsisting in the first place. The Army and Marines have only themselves to blame for the SEALs in a way.
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GD_American posted:My father saved the city of New Orleans (or at least, the Gretna side of it) from being flooded by a Senior Chief SEAL in 1983. The Rock prequel?
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I guess the short version- SEAL E-8 packrat decided to pile up surplus ammo from every exercise, range, and maybe just what he could get his hands on for the entire Naval Reserve Center there in N.O., in an unmarked off the books 40' van trailer parked 50 feet from the levee keeping the Mississippi River out. So, an entire trailer full of every type of small arms caliber, 40mm grenades, LAWs, etc. Baking in the sun. Padlocked up, with nobody knowing. Then the SEAL retired a few years before Dad got there. Dad got sick of nobody answering his questions about the trailer that wasn't on the books, and went and cut the lock. The ammo got shot up at a hastily assembled drill weekend range at Camp Shelby a few days later. It was a dawn to dusk two day spendex.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Ever hear of a Stealth Blackhawk before May 2nd, 2011? Nope? There is a reason for that. There’s also a reason why you’ve heard of them since May of 2011 and that reason is: I went to high school in Coronado and spent enough time at McPs that I completely believe this.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Ever hear of a Stealth Blackhawk before May 2nd, 2011? Nope? There is a reason for that. There’s also a reason why you’ve heard of them since May of 2011 and that reason is: gently caress I remember when that picture dropped and nerds from the ace combat skies website, who had a loving blog and wanted to start a PMC of all things, called it as a stealth Blackhawk. Lmfao.
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Totally a coincidence that the SEALs have become what they are today when the organization's origins and history hit every single box on the "is this a cult?" checklist -hidden knowledge available only to the chosen few -neverending us vs them power struggle with "them" cast as the rest of the navy -promise of god-challenging power and book deals for the faithful elect
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBUDyntqcUY
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GD_American posted:I guess the short version- SEAL E-8 packrat decided to pile up surplus ammo from every exercise, range, and maybe just what he could get his hands on for the entire Naval Reserve Center there in N.O., in an unmarked off the books 40' van trailer parked 50 feet from the levee keeping the Mississippi River out. Whoa! Good he took the initiative.
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So is the stealth Blackhawk a real thing or is it just part of the "we got him" lore? I figure we really did kill bin laden but believe the story surrounding it is fake af
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GD_American posted:I guess the short version- SEAL E-8 packrat decided to pile up surplus ammo from every exercise, range, and maybe just what he could get his hands on for the entire Naval Reserve Center there in N.O., in an unmarked off the books 40' van trailer parked 50 feet from the levee keeping the Mississippi River out. your dad owns
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Arson Daily posted:So is the stealth Blackhawk a real thing or is it just part of the "we got him" lore? I figure we really did kill bin laden but believe the story surrounding it is fake af I think the remaining one is parked for future museum exhibits. What's this about the army getting Ospreys?
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Arson Daily posted:So is the stealth Blackhawk a real thing or is it just part of the "we got him" lore? I figure we really did kill bin laden but believe the story surrounding it is fake af If you already don’t believe the story, there’s nothing I can say that will change your mind one way or the other RE: Stealth Blackhawks. I’m just some dude on Somethingawful.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:your dad owns He does indeed. Joined as an E-1 in '64, two tours of Vietnam- one on a diesel sub, the other on a riverboat. Made it to E-8, jumped to warrant, did 28 years, was set to retire Sep 1 1990. Saddam invaded Kuwait Aug 2 1990. So retirement got torn up, they put him on the Acadia and deployed him. (That ship made national news being nicknamed "The Love Boat" because about 40 women, fully 10% of its female crew went home pregnant during that cruise). They released him May 3rd, and he essentially hitchhiked his way from the Gulf to San Diego across the military logistics network with hours to spare for his daughter's wedding on May 5th. That's why I've always especially detested those "husband surprise return from deployment" videos. We had the real thing, and it didn't take place in front of a news crew.
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I don't really care either way. You tell me it's true I believe you, you tell me it's fakeass ooh-rah bullshit I believe you too. Either way I believe that the US government killed OBL, I just don't really care about the how and who and with what
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Arson Daily posted:So is the stealth Blackhawk a real thing or is it just part of the "we got him" lore? I figure we really did kill bin laden but believe the story surrounding it is fake af Blackhawks were real, a kill mission was real. Capturing him was never ever in the cards. That part is a lie for sure.
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The U.S. government wanted him dead, but probably didn’t want him canoed.
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I have to imagine if you literally had captured OBL and handed him over to DoD on live camera, he still would have had "a medical emergency" before long. No way the Obama administration wanted the heat of a trial, or even the pre-trial Gitmo detention.
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GD_American posted:He does indeed. Joined as an E-1 in '64, two tours of Vietnam- one on a diesel sub, the other on a riverboat. Made it to E-8, jumped to warrant, did 28 years, was set to retire Sep 1 1990. Nice! Glad he made it back in time. What was the role of diesel subs in Vietnam? Keeping an eye on north Vietnamese harbor traffic, or pilot rescue? Or did they have missiles yet?
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The Stealth Blackhawk has been confirmed by DoD- and Pakistani ISI. Re: Neptune's Spear- the government could not allow UBL taken alive. Period. That would give the opportunity for him to get a fair trial, or turned over to the ICC. What they did want was the ability to show to the world that we killed him; several men taking turns shooting him in the face after he was dead (as sourced in the various accounts) ruined that ability.
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It’s not like it’s some huge unknown if Osama bin Laden was alive long after the Abbottabad raid. If he were not dead, he would have released some proof of life, like a video mentioning current events. To make a conspiracy out of it, people have to suppose that he was already dead and that the U.S. government confirmed this and decided to take falsely claim credit. That’s just not a very exciting conspiracy theory, and it’s not like people wouldn’t have come up with other silly theories if the body had been recognizable and not unceremoniously dumped at sea.
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bulletsponge13 posted:The Stealth Blackhawk has been confirmed by DoD- and Pakistani ISI. Guess they were just “really good shots” as a DEVGRU SEAL might quip.
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Wonder if they got him like two weeks after 9/11, if the Afghan war would have happened at all.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Nice! Glad he made it back in time. I've never gotten anything more than vague stories. Largely about funny poo poo that happened inside the ship while "we were in places we weren't supposed to be and it would have been really bad to be caught". Old man will take the juicy poo poo to his grave; he's a big believer in OPSEC He did tell me a bit about SBU-22's role in Iran-Contra, which was basically taking brand new Boston Whalers and eliminating every single serial number on every part before painting them black, mounting gun pintles and signing them over to "a real prick of a Marine lieutenant colonel" GD_American fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Dec 10, 2022 |
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GD_American posted:I guess the short version- SEAL E-8 packrat decided to pile up surplus ammo from every exercise, range, and maybe just what he could get his hands on for the entire Naval Reserve Center there in N.O., in an unmarked off the books 40' van trailer parked 50 feet from the levee keeping the Mississippi River out. I believe every word of this post. Did you know the Royal Navy lost track of two German destroyers they took over after World War One? Yeah, they moored them just off a naval base and allowed them to just settle into the mud of the harbor. It took almost a century for someone to notice. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Dec 10, 2022 |
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