The Hunt Heats Up

Newsweek ^ | March 15 issue | Michael Hirsh and John Barry

[Squantos]

I think your right ....every SEAL thinks they are the smartest ever. That's what good training will do to ya !

Stay Safe Travis !

[harpseal]

The simple fact is sadism was always near the edge within the teams and was also not really tolerated because those who cross that line can get their teammates killed. There is a line between being a hardass and being a sadist and those who crossed that line were encouraged to volunteer out. The stories about the dogs are the same ones I heard and I further heard some things about not standing up for the men on his team.

When it comes to the teams everyone so relies on everyone else that anything crossing the line is going to endanger people's lives on the team and that is a very serious matter. Now being tied to a stake in the sun while naked on one's birthday while the mosquittos feast is merely camraderie. Smearing a jock strap with poison ivy oil a couple days before a wedding is similar.

[Travis McGee]

I saw some rough hazing, but I always thought ruining a honeymoon was over the line. That would make me an enemy for life.

[harpseal]

Having red hair and fair skin teh sun was a real probklem for me in SE Asia but even with a major league sunburn I was back in action after a couple of days. However, I never once faced the harassment of getting married while on the teams.

[Travis McGee]

I heard of guys getting kidnapped before weddings, and forced to drink large amounts of booze (to ruin the ceremony), getting shaved, blue balls, all that. I thought that was over the line, but I never knew anyone personally it happened to. I did know a JO who was handcuffed to a lamp post naked on AP Hill overnight.

[river rat]

This has got to be the most exciting "man hunt" in history..
I sure hope that "capture" is NOT the objective...
This bastard NEEDS to be brought out DEAD.
Let the Jihadists "pay their respects" to a decomposing mess of worm food on a stainless steel rack at the morgue.

Alive - he would be the darling of the left and the Islamists -- partners in lunacy. Just as Aristide is now playing the leftist and stupid press like a cheap banjo..

I WARNED that this would happen if the rebels allowed Aristide to escape with his life.....

I good killing can NEVER be achieved once the original opportunity is missed.

Semper Fi

[ASA Vet]

You know the truth about this?

[harpseal]

I can not say I know the truth about that photo as I was not there and did not see it.

[ASA Vet]

Here's a link to the true story from the official USN publication "All Hands"

Here's the real photo.

The doctored photo has been selling in Thailand, Laos, for several years.
I've found in places of honor in Lao households here in the US too.
The story they tell is that all of those Americans in the photo died due to their touching of the sacred Naga.
They get a little upset, (after doing the denial thing,) when told they've been suckered.