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https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1432442047768797190 https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1432445986274676740 For how hosed this whole thing is, holy loving shitballs that was a goddamn success. I thought for loving sure there was going to be some kind of attack for the limited troops left. A *shitload* of people got out that I sure didn't expect would happen based on how the shitstorm started. https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1432446906823847941 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Aug 30, 2021 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The next forever war will probably be fought over arable land of which Afghanistan has too little of. They're already way ahead of you: https://www.economist.com/international/2021/08/28/climate-change-will-alter-where-many-crops-are-grown posted:TOM EISENHAUER remembers driving through Manitoba, a province in central Canada, more than a decade ago. Surrounding his car were fields of cold-weather crops, such as wheat, peas and canola (rape). Dense staples such as maize (corn) and soya, which are more profitable, were few and far between. The view is very different now. More than 5,300 square kilometres have been sown with soya and around 1,500 with maize.
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Took him 20 years to care. Amazing.
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Wrong Theory posted:RE: Seal Talk The teams despise the fleet so maybe that too?
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facialimpediment posted:https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1432442047768797190 I’m calling it in a decade or so, it’s going to be locked at in hindsight as a really well down logistics operation, done against an insane backdrop. Like I mean in a sense that some people can be proud that they worked on it (I say some, because I’m sure some galaxy brains also participated and screwed things up at times…also officers). Also https://twitter.com/complexsports/status/1432444340606013441?s=21 https://twitter.com/kirk_barton/sta...-on-national-tv Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Aug 30, 2021 |
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Wrong Theory posted:RE: Seal Talk False equiv. SEALs are more like Rangers- they are direct action oriented, and want young, dumb, and full of cum. Special Forces were designed to be dropped into a hostile place and build an Army. As originally conceived, a single SF A Team could train and equip a BN of troopers in a month. While much of this has changed over GWOT, SF NEEDS maturity. You don't want 19 year old dipshit getting you killed because he won't let a man kiss him on the lips. Special Forces requires independent thought and evaluation to 2nd and 3rd order effects; DA oriented units like SEALs and Rangers don't require it to the extent SF does. SF does have a civilian pipeline; but it largely has open selection, with requirements, including a Time on Service/rank/experience. This adds a higher average age, with a higher degree of maturity. Pipelines are also different- SEALs get combat related training almost exclusively as a base standard. SF gets language, culture, and other assorted training that allows them to teach mean with no numerical systems how many rounds a magazine holds, or basic hygiene where there are no sources of clean water, etc. Totally different missions, with different views from the outside, and from inside. There is absolutely nothing the SEALs do that another unit couldn't, probably better. Even in VN, where they built their rep, you can see that. You can see they are glorified amphibious light Infantry with no budget and no oversight.
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That Works posted:loving brain trust over at wapo https://twitter.com/marcthiessen/status/1432445787389243399
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MazelTovCocktail posted:I’m calling it in a decade or so, it’s going to be locked at in hindsight as a really well down logistics operation, done against an insane backdrop. Like I mean in a sense that some people can be proud that they worked on it (I say some, because I’m sure some galaxy brains also participated and screwed things up at times…also officers). I'm amazed that after the initial images of Afghans flooding the runway and falling off C-17s in flight, the only American servicemember casualties were from a late-evac suicide bombing and 100K+ friendlies got evacuated. And somehow Biden didn't surge upon his surge - I would've been that after the surge to 5K troops, there was going to have to be another surge-level event for safety's sake, or the last few hundred troops wouldn't make it out cleanly.
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Thread https://twitter.com/Fritschner/status/1432379499379838983?s=20 Whole lot of dog whistling violent revolt going on. e: https://twitter.com/Fritschner/status/1432412038622552065?s=20
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drat how are we going to bipartisan our way out of bloodshed?
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bulletsponge13 posted:False equiv. Wait who's getting kissed
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facialimpediment posted:I'm amazed that after the initial images of Afghans flooding the runway and falling off C-17s in flight, the only American servicemember casualties were from a late-evac suicide bombing and 100K+ friendlies got evacuated. And somehow Biden didn't surge upon his surge - I would've been that after the surge to 5K troops, there was going to have to be another surge-level event for safety's sake, or the last few hundred troops wouldn't make it out cleanly. Same, it’s not the same as a “victory” in a traditional sense, but something quite amazing was done by the US military. Honestly I think it’s going to be a case study, in positive aspects, for a long time. That Works posted:Thread Edit: nah gently caress making him seem like a victim by thinking I’m funny. Also before anyone gets pissed….what happened to him was his only dumb fault. Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Aug 30, 2021 |
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I keep thinking that he's not really a Congressman because he lied about literally everything else in his life.
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boop the snoot posted:I’m one of those people. Yea, I am like that to some extend (though much less, I haven't been suicidical for many years now), in that physical discomfort and pain even are kinda things you can sorta tune out, but you cant' tune out being left out of something. Several years of therapy later and I can kind cope with being left out of something (like most things due to the Covid pandemic leading to everything being cancelled) without falling apart. Being in the Finnish army, in retrospective, was such a good experience to me most likely because you were never really alone (and it being the Finnish Defence Force meant no combat deployment to foreign countries).
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Milo and POTUS posted:Wait who's getting kissed How's it goin
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Everyone behind him looks so loving bored
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Everyone behind him looks so loving bored And inbred.
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bulletsponge13 posted:There is absolutely nothing the SEALs do that another unit couldn't, probably better. Even in VN, where they built their rep, you can see that. You can see they are glorified amphibious light Infantry with no budget and no oversight. MACV-SOG was way better than the SEALs in Vietnam, from everything I've read.
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https://twitter.com/marcthiessen/status/1432446890164039687 Ah, the classic "keep digging" strategy. edit: wait what https://twitter.com/ScottWalker/status/1432458184426414087 hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Aug 30, 2021 |
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Bored As gently caress posted:MACV-SOG was way better than the SEALs in Vietnam, from everything I've read. They did some wild poo poo in Call of Duty: Black Ops, the best Call of Duty game ever.
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hobbesmaster posted:edit: wait what quote:In 2010, he published the book Courting Disaster: How the C.I.A. Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack, which defended the use of torture during the George W. Bush administration, and claimed that the Obama administration's rejection of torture might lead to American deaths. gently caress that dude and his poorly-working brain. Edit: lol enjoy your broken chinooks https://twitter.com/nabihbulos/status/1432457587576950788
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Bored As gently caress posted:MACV-SOG was way better than the SEALs in Vietnam, from everything I've read. That falls under mission sets, too. Most SEAL missions in VN were Patrol to Contact, Ambush, or Hunt and Kill Operations. They want to make contact. Most SOG ops were snoop and poop- avoid contact as much as possible. I think it can be summed up in an anecdote- SEAL after action reports would read, "Intitated contact with 10-20 enemy; expended ammo, exfilled; est 8 enemy killed, 14 wounded." Chief SOG had a plaque made of an AAR from a recon guy (close, but not exact quote) "I saw an enemy NVA regular. Khaki uniform, Chicom Chest rig and Bata boots. He was carrying a chinese made type 56 AK. I shot him in the head." Not saying there wasn't overlap, but even in the 60s you had guys saying, "Wait- why do we need SEALs?" E- I agree with you, and was adding additional context. bulletsponge13 fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Aug 30, 2021 |
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Y'all remember when Texas passed a wildly unconstitutional anti-abortion law that gave anyone a private right of action against anyone who is involved with an abortion being performed after 6 weeks of pregnancy? Here's a quick rundown of what's happened since then. A federal district judge ruled the law is unconstitutional but does not enter an injunction immediately because the injunction portion wasn't briefed and there hadn't been a hearing. While working on briefing that topic, one defendant improvidently appeals to the fifth circuit. The fifth issues an order staying all proceedings in the lower court. The defendant who appealed with no right to do so, filed a motion to dismiss his appeal. The fifth sat on this rather than dismissing. They have now issued a briefing schedule on the matter while they could (and should) just dismiss the appeal. As a result of the fifth's jackassery, the law is slated to go into effect on wednesday. Plaintiffs have asked the SCOTUS to issue an injunction or make the fifth do something so the district court can enjoin the law. Alito, rather than doing anything to help, gave defendants until 5 PM tomorrow to file a response to plaintiffs' emergency petition. This means that the SCOTUS is not going to act before the law goes into effect. The practical tl;dr is that abortion is illegal in Texas after Wednesday. The conservative SCOTUS can do this over and over and effectively overturn Roe & Casey without ever hearing a case.
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Another thing I heard from the GWOT secret squirrel guy was that “if you point and tell the seals the kill everyone in a compound they’re going to kill everyone in that compound. If you point at a compound and tell them to go there but don’t kill everyone in that compound they’re going to kill everyone in that compound.”
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TheWeedNumber posted:I’m actual curious to see some data on that. Where could I find some? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32787719/ I dont have access to the article, but this might include what you seek.
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piL posted:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32787719/ Sci hub is your friend in these situations.
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:Not to say Army SF is the pinnacle of special operations folks or infallible in any way, but my experience working with them vs the SEAL or Marine Raiders makes believe SFAS does weed out more crazies and people unable to work as a team. Obviously my sole experience is completely anecdotal, but most of the problem children I’ve dealt with were more of the too busy trying to get a deployment wife than throwing tomahawks at foreign nationals like it’s Call of Duty. I know peer fails are absolutely a thing in SF; does SEAL training have anything similar?
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The BUDS documentary is pre GWOT right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qGse7ExL9g
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bulletsponge13 posted:I don't have it, but someone shared an article here- TL;DR- when studied, they found one unifying factor in everyone who made it through BUDS had in common was a high rate of Traumatic Childhood Experiences- which are also used as an indicator for possibly mental health problems later, such as impulse issues, diminished decision making/risk assessment, substance abuse, domestic violence, and suicide. V interesting stuff
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That Works posted:Sci hub is your friend in these situations. Good to know. I'll let the person who actually wants the data do that. I was only going to skim it and say "Conclusions are plausible", "publicly available data set here: <insert url>" or "skimmed the study-looks like bollocks".
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MazelTovCocktail posted:I’m calling it in a decade or so, it’s going to be locked at in hindsight as a really well down logistics operation, done against an insane backdrop. Like I mean in a sense that some people can be proud that they worked on it (I say some, because I’m sure some galaxy brains also participated and screwed things up at times…also officers). It took me a minute to realize why your post unsettled me and it just hit me: what you've described as the wars end is exactly how the war began. It should be studied in a vacuum in order to replicate it if ever necessary. The lessons learned are hefty bookends sandwiching tomes of institutional inertia, like two pieces of Wonder Bread on either end of a 20 pound poo poo sandwich.
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I was thinking of it almost like the Berlin airlift, but I honestly don't know enough about either to really make comparisons.
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McNally posted:I'm just pulling this from my rear end, but if I had to guess I'd say it's so that they don't deplete their existing manpower pool of trained sailors since anyone becoming a SEAL is going to need to learn a whole new skillset anyway. SF doesn’t get a lot from Regiment. The SMUs take mostly from the Rangers. Most SF guys come from traditional light infantry/airborne from what I’ve seen. The 82d sucks so bad that SFAS is worth it for the break alone.
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facialimpediment posted:For how hosed this whole thing is, holy loving shitballs that was a goddamn success. I thought for loving sure there was going to be some kind of attack for the limited troops left. A *shitload* of people got out that I sure didn't expect would happen based on how the shitstorm started. I gotta agree. We had a few nerve racking days there but we pulled it off. It's finally over.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Y'all remember when Texas passed a wildly unconstitutional anti-abortion law that gave anyone a private right of action against anyone who is involved with an abortion being performed after 6 weeks of pregnancy? Here's a quick rundown of what's happened since then. Crossposted to the TXpol thread. Thanks for these writeups, math and law make my brain turn to mush.
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But dogs cannot play basketball!!!
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:SF doesn’t get a lot from Regiment. The SMUs take mostly from the Rangers. Most SF guys come from traditional light infantry/airborne from what I’ve seen. The 82d sucks so bad that SFAS is worth it for the break alone. The brigades at Fort Lewis get a lot of guys from 2/75 and they're nothing like the SF guys I met through my dad and uncles growing up. Honestly I would have preferred it if most of them had stayed in 2/75, they're miserable to work for. Huge micromanagers. edit: having grown up hearing Army stories from an exclusively SF perspective, I severely underestimated how dumb being in the regular Army could be. Mustang fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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Mustang posted:The brigades at Fort Lewis get a lot of guys from 2/75 and they're nothing like the SF guys I met through my dad and uncles growing up. Honestly I would have preferred it if most of them had stayed in 2/75, they're miserable to work for. Huge micromanagers. After those Rangers from Fort Lewis robbed that Tacoma bank in 2006 were there any changes to their culture?
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:SF doesn’t get a lot from Regiment. The SMUs take mostly from the Rangers. Most SF guys come from traditional light infantry/airborne from what I’ve seen. The 82d sucks so bad that SFAS is worth it for the break alone. Okay, but where the gently caress do orgs like the Intelligence Support Activity / Gray Fox / TFO get their guys? I know they have shooters, SIGINT, and CI people. Do they just recruit from regular Army counterintelligence, SIGINT, and siphon off shooters from SMUs? I really like watching / listening to The Team House, a podcast run by Jack Murphy, former SF and journalist / author. He gets guests from everyone from CIA Ops officers or SAD, Army SF, Delta, SEALs, even had some Danish snow patrol dude. The show's a great listen while doing chores. Bored As Fuck fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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Bored As gently caress posted:Okay, but where the gently caress do orgs like the Intelligence Support Activity / Gray Fox / TFO get their guys? I know they have shooters, SIGINT, and CI people. Do they just recruit from regular Army counterintelligence, SIGINT, and siphon off shooters from SMUs? I have it on good authority that most of that recruitment passes straight through an obscure part of Arizona, specifically Yerma https://youtu.be/nKTVLeUpnTw
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