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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: punknpuss

many more.

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/06/62053-president-obamas-purge-military-officers-replaced-by-the-commander-in-chief/

All designed around hetero sex charges (laughable for a military where 98% of 14,000 male sexual assault victims are men on men assaults), and all engineered to demoralize the military and shake the public perception of the (straight) leaders.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/10/us-military-epidemic-sexual-assaults


61 posted on 06/25/2014 1:39:55 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: Vendome
He’s the only one being punished?

no, he is not... from the article:

"I'm the commander. I made those decisions. My men followed my orders," Gant said, his voice filled with heartbreak. "They took part of my soul. Yeah, they did."

Seven of his young troopers were also reprimanded... in my opinion, he had no business asking them to cover for him...

this reminds me of a class we taught when i was in corporate training... it was called Situational Ethics...

62 posted on 06/25/2014 1:42:03 PM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: thorvaldr

Dennis Hopper


63 posted on 06/25/2014 1:44:32 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

She’s a beauty compared to him. He looks old.

Wonder if he would have had to quit if the she had been a he.


64 posted on 06/25/2014 1:45:29 PM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: nickcarraway

The horror, the horror.....


65 posted on 06/25/2014 1:47:31 PM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: nickcarraway

The HORROR, the HORROR.. of being boinked by the democrat party..


66 posted on 06/25/2014 1:48:50 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: LeoWindhorse
How you may ask ? FAE’s ...the are amplified by the mountains and valleys . We could easily turn the Taliban into crispy critters, one and all , if we had the resolve .

And napalm. Lots and lots of napalm. Sticks to muz like sh1t to a blanket.

67 posted on 06/25/2014 1:49:11 PM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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To: ncpatriot

and here he is today , living in that pool of Progessive Libs : Seattle

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2668065/How-decorated-Green-Beret-kept-affair-US-war-reporter-secret-year-lived-Afghan-village-thrown-military-disgrace-allegations-alcohol-drug-abuse.html


68 posted on 06/25/2014 1:49:32 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Spirochete

true , no?

between UAV surveillance and advanced munitions , we could crush the Talib . No border sanctuaries....haven’t we learned a thing in the last 40 years ?

Some have and THEY should be our leadership


69 posted on 06/25/2014 1:51:27 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: SamAdams76

Hussein would be jealous.................


70 posted on 06/25/2014 1:53:06 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: nickcarraway
When he and his wife Ann went back to Mangwel last fall, as civilians with no U.S. military protection, they were welcomed like blood kin. "My heart just wanted to burst. I was so happy to see them again. They're my family, my family," Gant said, his voice full of raw emotion and his face wet with tears.

Yeah they went native all right. Here's a bet there's a shahada in their future.

71 posted on 06/25/2014 1:53:17 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: LeoWindhorse

Once we pull out Gant should go back and offer himself as the Secretary of War/Defense for the nation of Afghanistan .

For forces : worldwide mercs for core cadre .


72 posted on 06/25/2014 1:54:52 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Romulus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahada


73 posted on 06/25/2014 1:56:41 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Larry Lucido

LOL!

Wonder how many will get it...


74 posted on 06/25/2014 2:08:08 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Romulus

“Anyone know what weapon that is he’s carrying?”

Simple underfolder AKM it would appear, the grips appear to be aftermarket addons. It’s not an AMD or variant as near as I can tell, barrel is too long and it looks like it has the wrong muzzle brake.


75 posted on 06/25/2014 2:08:24 PM PDT by jameslalor
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To: nickcarraway

I do not know about anyone else but I do know that I breathed a sigh of relief when I read that a male Army officer had a female as his mate instead of a two-male situation or a two-female situation.


76 posted on 06/25/2014 2:11:00 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: nickcarraway

If he was a deserter or one of 5 terrorists he would been treated better by obama.


77 posted on 06/25/2014 2:20:48 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Noamie

Excellent analysis.


78 posted on 06/25/2014 2:37:44 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: LeoWindhorse
true , no?

between UAV surveillance and advanced munitions , we could crush the Talib . No border sanctuaries....haven’t we learned a thing in the last 40 years ?

Jihadis aren't afraid of dying instantly e.g. shot or blow up. But napalm doesn't kill instantly. It inflicts a shrieking, unquenchable charring death, and it would wear down the Jihadi's zeal to see their comrades burnt to a cinder day after day knowing they will eventually suffer the same.

We could deliver this them to today in greater quantities than we did to Japan in WWII.

79 posted on 06/25/2014 2:40:20 PM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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To: BubbaJunebug
Marlon Brando’s character Col Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now must have been his idol

What's the problem? Major Gant's Commander-in-Chief went "Colonel Kurtz" years ago and he thinks he's the Messiah.


80 posted on 06/25/2014 2:42:42 PM PDT by Perseverando (Obamanation: It's ALL about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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