War means fightin' and fightin' means killin'.
- Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest
“You could tell he was perfectly OK with killing anybody that was moving.”
SPJNK........................
I’m reminded of the woman in the movie Apocalypse Now that tosses a hat with a grenade in it into a Huey. I suspect that with someone like Eddie around she may have met with less success.
WTH? Combat solders should be as described. Yeah let’s pass out flowers to our enemies and see how that goes.
The left is not satisfied unless they can completely destroy their target. This is from the NYT. I think the writers of the NYT should be summarily executed for treason as they have committed it almost continuously since 2016.
Oh cool, the medic wants to talk about war and tactics.
Please, do continue...
Scott is in the wrong line of work. He would see and say the same thing working in any ER in Chicago, Philly, Baltimore.
Good point. Have to consider the source and their motivation.
We send these men to kill jihadis and then when they kill jihadis, some want to prosecute them for it.
Medic.
“Anguished” seals? Anguished? What?
Eddie is obviously the type of SEAL that Trump prefers - one that will KEEP AMERICA GREAT!
I get that the Chief was toxic to team morale. I get that he was blood thirsty. I get that some frogs have claimed he killed innocents. I get that he became toxic within the teams. I get it. The problem is that the SEALs have become Sea Rangers (hat tip to Travis Mcgee/Matt Bracken) and not a special operations unit. They take down airports instead of the Army Rangers. They get embedded into regular troop units. They get assign mundane chores. They simple no longer represent special operations. Much of that the SEALs used to do can now be done with precision munitions and specialized surveillance systems. Instead of finding unique and specialized missions, the SEALs have been assigned regular troop tasks.
Toss in that the SEALs have been receiving far less adult supervision, and you have a toxic environment that the Chief simply took advantage of.
What the hell??
I just do not see an individual who earned the title and trident of a Navy SEAL as being the kind of warrior that would be described as being “anguished”.
Not buying it.
5 Fast Facts something stinks at the NYT.
Some of the comments are spot on - one says he was cleared by a Military Court-Martial of all but a minor crime - so how could that be with all these snowflakes “weighing” in....
It isn’t popular to say it, but the ongoing wars and this pop culture have attracted more than a few modern snowflake new SEALS that are fantastic athletes, but otherwise not really the same caliber of fighting man of the recent past.
So I’m sure they can find a mangina or two to say things like this.
A couple murdered a Special Forces soldier in Africa because he was exposing their dope ring. One came out as a tranny. The fact that someone is a seal doesn’t mean their opinion is automatically worthwhile these days.
“Colonel, there are 50,000 men on this island who would like to shoot that son of a bitch!”
- From “Patton”
Yeah. I don’t take religious, moral, or military advice from the NYT.
Interesting if true. Did these stories come out as testimony during the court martial? If not why not? And If I recall correctly, why did the prosecution feel it had to spy on the defense attorneys? Perhaps a Freeper who is in-the-know can tell us. I would prefer someone who has direct knowledge to speak up, rather than rely on google.
C.W.