Demoralizing
Hagel Promises More Military Pay, Benefits Cuts
Posted on 01/20/2014 1:37:20 PM PST by LS
At that time, the werewolves “were” not there to climb the trees.
year? I meant weekend.
LOL. And hugh. I meant to say “badly injured by the fall and wounded from gunshots and RPGs” but went for short form.
No, I don’t think ANY security issues were revealed, unless you want to cite the common sense repositioning of helos miles away from the firefight zones. No, the training was covered in less than 5 minutes of credits, nothing about the sequencing and nothing that I thought would reveal anything to our enemies except that SEALS are badasses.
I don't understand the mystique. These guys are superb physical specimens, not in terms of having bodybuilder physiques, but in terms of being equipped to endure the difficulties of hiking through rugged terrain and dealing with physical hazards. But they're men, and without adequate fire support they're just highly-trained light infantry. Using fire support from USAF, USN and USMC aircraft, the Northern Alliances routed the Taliban. There ain't no magic involved. Air support was the hammer and the the Northern Alliance was the anvil. These SEALs took a pounding because they were outnumbered, lacked air support, and had only what they could carry as weaponry.
That’s good news. I would feel better about seeing this movie and supporting it with my dollars, if, as you say, no high security has been breached. There was probably some technical adviser on the set, ready to say “NO!, that (extreme disclosure) is wrong and it’s not gonna work”, loud enough for the directors to hear him.
” I know that is sacrilege around here but who cares. “
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Good for you. I go every week and love it.
I saw “Lone Survivor” today. Terrific.
We’re going to see “Nebraska” next week.
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Maybe Walberg is picking up where Mel Gibson became distracted with personal problems and stopped making high ideal movies. Some actors, act to earn a living, other actors learn how to create the entire vehicle, from story board to the night of premiere. Ronnie Howard is that way. Ronnie is one of the few child actors who learned the business and all it’s components. I forgive Ronnie for being a lib, because at least he doesn’t seem to be a hateful lib, or one bent on destroying all pillars of society as does Rob Reiner, aka Meathead. Rob pals around with the ACLU!
Yes, this is what fighting an earlier version of the Taliban was like without air support
http://www.tribalanalysiscenter.com/PDF-External/Umbeyla.pdf
There have been a handful of close calls and brushes, but no Navy SEAL since the beginning in ‘62 has ever been captured alive.
Irony of ironies, the op-tempo for specops troops the past decade has been so high, that this platoon was a group of SDV guys from Hawaii, trained for mini-sub ops locking out of dry-deck shelters clamped upon boomers and fast attack subs. About as far from the Hindu Kush as you can get, and still be a specops warrior.
Have a look before you go see Jack Ryan. The bad guys in that movie are “right wing Christians” from Russia.
ought to read malakand expedition by winston churchill about his experience fighting the talaban of his day in 1890’s. same place, same deal, same #$@% just a different bag. nothing changed in 100 years
Watched it on Saturday in CT. Sold out show again. Pretty good for the second week. The silent majority votes with their wallet.
Thanks for your ratings of some of the other movies out...I was a little apprehensive to see some of them. My next movie will be Jack Ryan. As for my wife with Lone Survivor, she closed her eyes during some of the more hard to watch moments but she really enjoyed it.
I read the book when it came out and couldn’t appreciate the tumbling down the mountain until I saw it in the movie.
Good review.
Wahlberg is a good actor, but he’ll never be Daniel Day Lewis. Rather, I think his calling is as a producer-—not just this but he also was the exec producer of “Entourage” -—a much lighter and funnier Breaking Bad quality show.
I was kind of surprised that a CH-47 full of SEALs was shot down. My wife asked if that was the SEAL team 6 chopper that went down (she is reading the book “Betrayal”)
I couldn’t answer her for sure because I had not heard of another SEAL chopper being shot down (although this was long before the ST-6 chopper shootdown)
Was this shootdown covered up as well?
No, that one came afterward.
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