GENERAL TOPICS > Our Pro-Military, Veteran, and Thin Blue Line place

Niger SF attack: Back Channel commentary

<< < (3/3)

cj7ox:
Even an ODB should have been pulling security. That's something that is preached constantly, even in support roles. Always maintain 360* security. Now, that said, I have known purely logistical units to be lax on that, but anyone involved with SF should know better, especially in a foreign, hostile AO. This report seems very fishy. It also seems fishy that it would take 40+ hours for a personnel recovery mission to be spun up. This smells like an effort to discredit the military, IMO.

cudakidd53:
Smells to me like the fruits of the last 8 years coming home to roost - warm fuzzy feelings replaced the oftentimes warranted and necessary kick in the pants during basic training and a Championship round of “Call of Duty” replaces real world range time and “war games” leaving the tech specialists looking for the joystick and reset button!

Flyin6:

--- Quote from: KensAuto on October 26, 2017, 11:17:43 AM ---SF guys not pulling security at night? sounds fishy to this civy.

--- End quote ---
I don't know.
That's the kind of stuff you get face to face and never over the net. Big Brother is ever watchful
Now this is what I do know.
An SF team caught with their pants down, sleeping??
Never, No Way, Never has, nor never will ever happen

SF units have both "A" teams and "B" teams
The A team guys are the green beret wearing snake eaters
The B-team guys are maroon beret wearing support guys. There's a pretty big tail that wags the dog in combat units. Those support guys can still carry a rifle and are able to move about the battlefield without the green beret, "Tab wearing" guys.
So would a group of truck drivers supporting the green tab guys catch a nap in enemy territory? Sadly, yes, I believe they might.
How do you get into a Special FOrces unit as a support guy you ask? Just show up at the reassignments desk when they need a cook, and just like that you're in a SF unit. You are nowhere near being a green beret. That takes an awful lot of training after being selected (Hand picked) The only thing different about a mechanic in a SF unit and one in washington DC is that the guy hanging around the snake eaters will likely get drug into some spicy places.
SF selection is tough...Way tough, like Ranger school, it is very difficult to complete. My unit was graduating one out of 25 when I went into all that business. Sgt Johnson got separated during the fight as many soldiers do, probably just by dodging the heavy machine gun fire.
I salute his service and sacrifice and send my sympathies to his widow and other surviving family members

There is not much to this story, other than one of the hundreds of behind the scenes military missions went bad.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page