Army Tier 1 Unit Cancelled?
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That's a great point, and really hard to say where the "due diligence" line lies. Let's say, for example, your name is Barron and you run a highly-popular Air Force SOF-themed podcast called "Twos Unprepared" and you host, say, a guy who claims he's a smart intel guy with a SOF background. I know, I know, "no one like that exists," but humor me.
You do some background checking before you even invite him on the show, and it appears the guy checks out. Other online sites in the same space have had him on their shows, you know for a fact that he is/did X/Y/Z, you have mutual friends who vouch for the guy, whatever. But then he gets on your show and he says that he carried a bag of TOW missiles around and lobbed them at the Taliban for days or whatever. You have no way of knowing whether that's true or not, you weren't there. You have no ideas how many TOW missile that I.., er, I mean, the unnamed smart intel guy with a SOF background... can fit in his SCIF pocket. That bitch might be like a bag of holding for all you know. You can't disprove it in the moment, so maybe you have to let that go.
But then someone who used to be in that intel guy's until comes up on the net and is like
"Actually, um, I was his team leader on that deployment, and it wasn't a bag of holding it was a sphere of annihilation and everyone knows that if you put a TOW missile inside it, that act would rip apart the Prime Material Plane. He's full of shit."
Or whatever.|
And you start unpacking that over time and find out that the smart intel guy is in reality a dumb fuck fraud.
So is it on Barron for giving
Now, if you know someone is sus, and you keep promoting him/her for clout, or supporting their work in any way, then yeah, you're complicit. You're just as bad as that person. That's why I avoid people like Jack, and I try to do the same with people who support him in any way. You know what he is and what he does, and you're still getting in bed with him? Cool. You do you, homie, I'm going to be over here with people of decent character.
So when it comes to Delta force,or CAG how does the unit police itself? The reason I ask is, for example when seal team six killed Osama Bin Laden a book was written,but if delta would carried out the operation you would have never heard or seen a book on the subject.
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“Dalton Fury” begs to differ.
PJ's from Moody had a guy embedded with them in 2002 who published a book in 2004. I'd presume being embedded meant he did it the right way pre-publishing.
I don't think Teti was CAG, he was SF who went Ground Branch unless I missed something. Satterly is very credible. Comstock is a poor representation for a lot of reasons.
At any rate, we're talking about a list made by someone who is probably not the most authoritative source, on what is now a click bait website (the company has its own problems), to make a point about (it appears) CAG vs. DEVGRU books in defense of DEVGRU? Okay.
I think my point stands that there’s a shit ton of books by people in all branches talking about things they shouldn’t.
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I know a guy who lurks here that was in one of those units. His take on those books regardless of branch is "less than positive."
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Just because someone is a "real guy" doesn't mean the shit they've git to say is any more valuable than a popcorn fart. Writing a book about your time in service or creating content on EweToob to try and "monetize your legacy" doesn't inherently make you a bad person.
Imagine an America where everyone attacks Audie Murphy for making "To Hell and Back"
...for gid sake - HOLLYWOOD even had him 'tone it down' because his well documented exploits were just too fucking heroic for some people to believe could even be real.
Clint Eastwood and John Wayne weren't real Cowboys.
EweToob is full of people that have monetized their channel because they have found an entertaining way to show people how they cook a rack of pork ribs...
...and hardly anyone calls a EweToob cook a soulless profiteering charlatan just because they never graduated from culinary school.
Most folks know which "operators" are full of shit - and which ones are just trying to pay their bills.
The ones that are full of shit KNOW they are full of shit - and they don't care - they are happy to double down and call everyone a hater.
Meanwhile - some fucking hillbilly with a pack of Marlboros rolled into his t-shirt sleeve that grew up in a single wide in Hope Mills and never spent a day in the military is teaching housewives how to defend themselves with something as simple as a J-Frame revolver.
...but damn if we wont glorify the dude that requires full kit and a three thousand dollar Gucci Glock before you can attend their "self defense seminar"
As long as America is still "mostly" rooted in capitalism - lets just all agree NOT to buy their shit or go to their ridiculous adventure training where people pretend that a random housewife needs to have a go-bag and full kit while paying hundreds of dollars learning how to 'pie a corner' so they can defend their home.
In other news, have I ever told you folks about that time back in the war when I did some REALLY next level cool shit?
Now I dont want to brag, but there I was, alone and unafraid...
Imagine an America where everyone attacks Audie Murphy for making "To Hell and Back"
...for gid sake - HOLLYWOOD even had him 'tone it down' because his well documented exploits were just too fucking heroic for some people to believe could even be real.
Clint Eastwood and John Wayne weren't real Cowboys.
EweToob is full of people that have monetized their channel because they have found an entertaining way to show people how they cook a rack of pork ribs...
...and hardly anyone calls a EweToob cook a soulless profiteering charlatan just because they never graduated from culinary school.
Most folks know which "operators" are full of shit - and which ones are just trying to pay their bills.
The ones that are full of shit KNOW they are full of shit - and they don't care - they are happy to double down and call everyone a hater.
Meanwhile - some fucking hillbilly with a pack of Marlboros rolled into his t-shirt sleeve that grew up in a single wide in Hope Mills and never spent a day in the military is teaching housewives how to defend themselves with something as simple as a J-Frame revolver.
...but damn if we wont glorify the dude that requires full kit and a three thousand dollar Gucci Glock before you can attend their "self defense seminar"
As long as America is still "mostly" rooted in capitalism - lets just all agree NOT to buy their shit or go to their ridiculous adventure training where people pretend that a random housewife needs to have a go-bag and full kit while paying hundreds of dollars learning how to 'pie a corner' so they can defend their home.
In other news, have I ever told you folks about that time back in the war when I did some REALLY next level cool shit?
Now I dont want to brag, but there I was, alone and unafraid...
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"Clint Eastwood and John Wayne weren't real Cowboys."
WHAT!?!?! HOW DARE YOU!! They identified as Cowboys...same same
WHAT!?!?! HOW DARE YOU!! They identified as Cowboys...same same
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Oddly enough - it does,
It counts for whatever folks want it to count for.
If a housewife meets you at the the Walmart Neighborhood Market and decides that the elevator speech you gave her at the self checkout is good enough...
...smash away
That same housewife isn't worth the ink on the DD Form 1172-2 that her cuckold husband used to put her silly ass on DEERS
If a few minutes of watching some jackass "self promote" on a podcast is all a housewife needs to buy into the hero worship of a modern day "celebrity operator"
...then that broad was never anything more than a low grade Bragg Boulevard dependapotamus in the first place.
Military guys that know IN THEIR HEARTS that the shit they are reading is 100% low grade bullshit full of expired, imitation, high-fructose corn syrup, trans fat, artificial sweetener, sodium nitrate, artificial color, red dye number three, monosodium glutamate with a metric fuck ton of added sugar...
...well for fuck sake - there's just no saving some people
I miss the entertainment and quality of the LRRP books or even from Patches. More grit and get shit done than trying to air dirty laundry of their own or anybody elses.
At a certain point, if the laundry stinks you also own it if you aren't trying to get it washed.
At a certain point, if the laundry stinks you also own it if you aren't trying to get it washed.
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