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Top Green Beret Officer Forced to Resign Over Affair With WaPo Reporter
ABC News ^ | Jun 24, 2014 | JAMES GORDON MEEK, RHONDA SCHWARTZ and BRIAN ROSS

Posted on 06/25/2014 12:38:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A legendary Special Forces commander was quietly forced to leave the U.S. Army after he admitted to a love affair with a Washington Post war correspondent, who quit her job to secretly live with him for almost a year in one of the most dangerous combat outposts in Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Special Operations Command never publicly disclosed that highly-decorated Green Beret Major Jim Gant was relieved of command at the end of a harrowing 22 months in combat in March 2012.

His commanders charged in confidential files that he had "indulged in a self-created fantasy world" of booze, pain pills and sex in a tribal village deep in Taliban and al Qaeda country with his "wife," journalist Ann Scott Tyson.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; annscotttyson; apocalypsenow; colonelkurtz; greenberet; jimgant; socom; specops
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To: latina4dubya

Ticks me off to no end when children are the victims of this sort of thing.


101 posted on 06/25/2014 7:15:45 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: punknpuss

Gant sounds like the kind of Green Beret we need a thousand more like.


102 posted on 06/25/2014 7:20:27 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: rjsimmon

One or the other must have hint the right spot ;)


103 posted on 06/25/2014 7:23:29 PM PDT by piroque ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
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To: McGruff

I missed that too. Good soldier, bad husband. The marriage is the more important of the two.


104 posted on 06/25/2014 7:24:47 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Romulus

Thanks for the info. I didn’t know that.


105 posted on 06/25/2014 7:25:05 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Larry Lucido

Ha! I was hoping that would turn up.


106 posted on 06/25/2014 7:26:44 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Paine in the Neck

Well, they say Uncle Miltie “embedded” quite a few himself.

She definitely looks like a direct descendent.


107 posted on 06/25/2014 7:29:39 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: 1010RD

Good soldiers have better leadership skills.


108 posted on 06/25/2014 7:29:48 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Jack Hammer

American officers should be men of honor.


109 posted on 06/25/2014 7:32:45 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Noamie

I noticed that in college. Good analysis.


110 posted on 06/25/2014 7:41:48 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Romulus

For certain. I didn’t realize he was married and had only read of his successes in the field. It’s a disaster. Although, it does seem that homosexual rape in the military isn’t dealt with as publicly.


111 posted on 06/25/2014 7:46:27 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Romulus

Yes, I agree with you - in theory.

But, above all, American officers should produce enemy casualties.


112 posted on 06/26/2014 1:20:26 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Romulus

“American officers should be men of honor.”

Not arguing that point, but isn’t it interesting that the Pashtun considered Maj. Gant exactly that — a man of honor. This illustrates the fundamental conflict between tribal Islam and the West.


113 posted on 06/26/2014 6:08:44 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Romulus

Oh thanks, I was going to ask whether this was an actual affair.

Evidently it was two.

Sad.


114 posted on 06/26/2014 6:14:49 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: nickcarraway

Interesting story. But he’s still a scumbag for cheating on his wife and wrecking the lives of his 4 children. All to grow a beard and live in caves with Muslim savages.


115 posted on 06/26/2014 6:49:01 AM PDT by strider44
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To: Jack Hammer

No — in fact. Honor isn’t a useful accessory, like a good smile or nice manners. It’s essential. Officers have to make life or death decisions. They need the confidence of their men, and of their superiors. How can a man be effective as a Special Forces officer if his word is no good and he demoralizes his men by making a priority of his own creature comforts? Who willingly follows a creature like that into battle? What senior officer wants to risk the mission on a liar and slave to his own pleasure? He has no authority and no respect, and that’s why he had to go. He’s damn lucky he got off so lightly.


116 posted on 06/26/2014 7:15:33 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: Romulus

Yes, I get you.

You’re right, after all.

I just didn’t see this guy as quite such a lowlife.


117 posted on 06/26/2014 10:18:30 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: nickcarraway

Although they were both married, Ms Tyson left her family in 2011, quit her journalism job and secretly moved to his dangerous combat outpost in Afghanistan, to live with him for nearly a year.


118 posted on 06/26/2014 4:44:50 PM PDT by kcvl
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