re: New Army Special Forces Commercial

I am a 37A, but, I don't think that my handful of years in that arena would be worth much compared to an Officer who spent a decade or so in that field, if we are going to try to figure out this particular PsyOp media product. That's why it would be nice if we had somebody in the thread with many years in service as a 37A. Doesn't seem like we are going to have that.

One thing that comes to my mind on this point: if this is a 4th POG product, then it wasn't created by some high-level CIA spooks. On the contrary, it was created at Ft. Bragg by the young officers and NCOs in the 4th POG. We are talking about company grade Officers and NCOs, not CIA. With that in mind, that's why I would argue that we should be careful about reading high-level secret messages and meanings into the product.

PsyOp is changing its focus from the Middle East to the Russians. PsyOp is trying to "psych-out" the Russians now, not the Islamic Terrorists. Maybe this particular product is trying to impress the Russians AND generate some recruiting interest at the same time.

A 4th POG product would not be generated by the CIA or people in the CIA.

I'm not comfortable talking much about me and what I've done. It's all in the past anyway. I'm just in the thread to talk about that particular product, who made it and what it might mean.

I brought up my own past experience in this thread only because it was directly related to this product.

If I can find out anything more about this product, I'll revisit this thread. I have a contact, and, I'll see what they say.

Maybe back in Vietnam, PsyOp did some scary spooky stuff like staring at goats until the goat's heart stopped, but, from the 1990s onward, IMHO, PsyOp hasn't been like that.

If I stared at a goat until somebody's heart stopped, it would probably be my heart to stop first.

One big PsyOp project that I remember from my time was the publication of some comic books in the local language. We had an agreement with DC Comics to allow us to use the DC Comics artists and super hero figures to make comic books teaching the locals about our De-Mining efforts and about the dangers of local mine fields that were still out there. If anybody could find a copy of one of those comic books, you'd have a nice collector's item. I should have thought to take some home with me but I didn't because that would be -- STEALING.

You'd think somebody would have GIVEN me one.

If you could have talked Marvel Comics into loaning us their artists and super heroes, the command would have done whatever you wanted them to do!

Thing is, how often do these sorts of units produce videos promoting themselves? I've never seen it before. This is why I suspect this video has nothing to do with intimidation or recruiting. You think the Russians aren't familiar with our different Spec Ops units? They know what they're potentially going up against. Their intelligence apparatus is pretty savvy. They don't need to see videos about our psyops units. They have their own and they know well and good what sort of work is done in that field. Imo anyways.

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Anyway, 4th POG would never create a PsyOp product intended for domestic USA consumption

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They have clips of riots on American soil in there.

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They have clips of riots on American soil in there.

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Also, if it's "marketed" as a recruiting video, then, obviously it's for domestic consumption. The unit would probably tell us that this is not a PsyOp product but just a recruiting video.

So, who knows for sure? Definitely not me.

That video was interesting. These guys must be unaware of Q. They didn't comment on any of the similarities. They say people need to stop quoting Sun Tzu, but what they don't realize is that is a direct quote of Q. They also seemed puzzled as to why they included clips of the George Floyd riots.

Really they just spent about 14 minutes explaining why it isn't a recruiting video because they point out that most the shite in that video is stuff psyops guys don't get involved in at all. They also pointed out that the video itself is a successful psyop.

Why you laughing? It is. They quoted Q multiple times in that video.

Is there any difference between sun Tzu and Q at this point?

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That video was interesting.

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They are two former SF guys that have some funny content. They know the operator side of the business but but do not have an in depth understanding of politics. They are fun to watch and get a laugh from.