Operation Red Wing article

[Marauder06]

This is a natural outcome when we have monetized service, especially valorous service, through social media engagement. We have created a military influencer marketplace that indirectly encourages exaggeration and fraud.

And no accountability, top to bottom.

 

[Devildoc]

This is a natural outcome when we have monetized service, especially valorous service, through social media engagement. We have created a military influencer marketplace that indirectly encourages exaggeration and fraud.

Yes. My first hero was Larry Vickers. He's a hell of an instructor but I have changed who my heroes are.

 

[TLDR20]

This reminds me of a scene in Mad Men where the main character is posing as a Korean War vet. Someone finds out and goes to management. They dismiss the complaint because the main character makes them so much money that no one cares what he claims.

Both versions of Don Draper were actually combat veterans in the war though. He just assumes the identity of the officer rather than staying Private Dick Whitman.

I’m literally watching Mad Men right now.

 

[AWP]

Both versions of Don Draper were actually combat veterans in the war though. He just assumes the identity of the officer rather than staying Private Dick Whitman.

I’m literally watching Mad Men right now.

Glad you're literally watching it vice some simulation and thank you for the pedantic correction about being a Korean vet. The show's Don Draper is still a stolen valor case which is what's pointed out in the show. Dick is pretending to be Don for personal gain. That's the point.

 

[TLDR20]

Glad you're literally watching it vice some simulation and thank you for the pedantic correction about being a Korean vet. The show's Don Draper is still a stolen valor case which is what's pointed out in the show. Dick is pretending to be Don for personal gain. That's the point.

I wasn’t trying to be a dick. It was just a weird connection that I was watching the show while it came up in a thread here.

 

[The Quartermaster]

I do know the Marines' perspective, and that was a) they (NSW participation) weren't needed, b) they weren't prepared or trained, c) they didn't listen.

Even a brand new E-1 fresh out of either OSUT or the USMC School of Infantry, can look at a map, see a manmade drift, and ask why they thought putting a team in there for recon was a good idea.

I generally do not talk about this because I do not want to inadvertently desegregate those lost sailors, their department, or the seals, but something fucky was going on there and somebody should have raised an alarm. I mean when Marine Recon passes something that's a recon mission, we probably should be listening to WHY they passed on the mission to begin with.

But what do I know, I'm just a supply guy who can still read a map and seeing a drift natural or manmade, would point out that it's a danger area.