re: New Army Special Forces Commercial

Maybe so. Y’all are about 5 years times 2 waiting in this though lol. At some point you gotta realize the that nothing is going to happen.

Last Goodbye - Eric Kinny with Danica Dora

I'm 11B too, four years behind Broadmoor Wolfie at Harmony Church/Ft Benning.

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I'm 11B too, four years behind Broadmoor Wolfie at Harmony Church/Ft Benning.

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Hell yeah, man. Hooah!

I remember Fort Benning well. Fond memories and also shitty memories all rolled into one crazy hot summer doing a bunch of dumb arse shite.

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I'll make sure to inform the President.

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Wut lol. Should just tell your friends on the internet. They are the ones that don’t seem to accept reality.

Trump straight up said he was going to be sending criminals to Gitmo. I think the number was 23 he would be sending.

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This impotent administration can give orders to move troops and when to do so. It's probably one of the only actual orders they can give to the MIL that would be followed.

The plan was never to pull up stakes in AFG 100%. We've explained this to your ilk before. That you choose to attempt to spike the football in this manner is noted but denied on the grounds of overwhelming retardation.

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The pinned quote on the 1st Special Forces Command twitter page is

"We train hard to become experts, so we can train *others* to become experts. We are the Premier Partnered Irregular Warfare Force."

We had twenty years in Afghanistan to train the others. That was constant, no matter what the administration. So it begs the question, were the irregular operations, counter-insurgency, training indigenous forces, Civil Affairs, and PSYOPs failures only on the part of the administration, or should the military bear a significant part of the blame?

Did Special Operations decide they would focus nearly entirely on direct action and give all the rest of those tasks to the conventional and non-special force National Guard units?

Why was there such a failure to adapt, anticipate and learn in this realm of warfare?

Are the current leaders of Special Forces, the intelligent and honorable or the short-sighted and venal?

I don't begrudge the Special Forces soldiers, from my experience in Afghanistan they tended to be over worked or similarly put into unwinnable situations, sometimes not even allowed to exercise the autonomy and ingenuity they were selected for.

And on one occasion I was with them when a few of them paid the ultimate sacrifice, as a direct result of incompetence by their higher headquarters.

That commercial flies in the face of reality and the idea that Special Forces are the quiet professionals.

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Trump straight up said he was going to be sending criminals to Gitmo. I think the number was 23 he would be sending.

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WHAT YEAR IS IT

LOL

No AC for us, brutally cold in February and stifling hot in May...

But, I loved those old WW2 barracks..felt we got the full Stripes/Platoon/Full Metal Jacket experience, that my LSU homies and I signed up for.

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Don't lie, you're the dude on the bottom right with the unibrow, aren't you?

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I am the ugly, skinny white kid that does not have BCG. And no, I am not unibrow guy. But he was scary looking

Four of us went to the Old Guard right after OSUT. Two of them would be in my wedding five years later.