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‘War Is Fun’: The Navy SEAL Who Went to Ukraine Because He Couldn’t Stop Fighting
The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 12, 2023 | Ian Lovett and Brett Forrest

Posted on 05/12/2023 7:32:31 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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To: MinorityRepublican

hes dead


21 posted on 05/12/2023 7:58:25 AM PDT by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: MinorityRepublican

No the poor so and so has a screw loose likely from too much exposure to violence and death.


22 posted on 05/12/2023 7:59:07 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Responsibility2nd
No doubt he is already on the PTSD money wagon.

I am pulling for Russia.

23 posted on 05/12/2023 8:03:05 AM PDT by cherry
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To: MinorityRepublican

I knew a guy who, I was once told, did three tours in Vietnam as a door gunner, because he liked it. He had a name that would not be out of place in the Wehrmacht.


24 posted on 05/12/2023 8:06:15 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

Did he know not to lead women and children so much?


25 posted on 05/12/2023 8:11:21 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: MinorityRepublican

As a man you have to be a monster, but to exist in civilized society you must keep the monster shackled and in control. Or it may consume you.


26 posted on 05/12/2023 8:12:09 AM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
He had separated from his wife. A court had barred him from seeing his four children, and he was facing legal charges for false imprisonment and domestic battery.

He had no reason to stay in the U.S. The feminized courts took away everything he'd ostensibly fought for.

Like days of old, when men who got into trouble at home ran off to join the Foreign Legion, or the set sail in some foreign navy.

27 posted on 05/12/2023 8:15:48 AM PDT by Angelino97
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He had no reason to stay in the U.S. The feminized courts took away everything he'd ostensibly fought for.

He had PTSD. The military needs to provide a better support system. I agree that military wives should be more helpful but this is America and they're not going to do that.

28 posted on 05/12/2023 8:21:50 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Levy78

“He got himself killed for a no good reason.”

He’s been dead for some time, mentally. It just took time to catch up with him. Probably a war junkie that never received treatment.

wy69


29 posted on 05/12/2023 8:22:04 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

I have never met a Vietnam door gunner who didn’t love the job.


30 posted on 05/12/2023 8:26:35 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: one guy in new jersey

Read about Adrian Carton de Wiart sometime for one of that vein


31 posted on 05/12/2023 8:27:41 AM PDT by ferret_airlift
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To: ansel12
I have never met a Vietnam door gunner who didn’t love the job.

You would probably get different opinions from the actual grunts on the ground on search and destroy patrols in triple canopy jungle.

32 posted on 05/12/2023 8:30:00 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: MinorityRepublican

He was a complete fool to fight for Ukraine, much like the “Lincoln Battalions” fighting for the Marxists in Spain in the 1930s - but regardless, he’s an extreme embodiment of many of the virtues of manhood


33 posted on 05/12/2023 8:33:28 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: redcatcherb412

At jump school, a guy drove up to speak to the black hat, when he drove off the black hat told us that if we see the guy to avoid him, he was getting out of the army because after 3 tours in Vietnam, they wouldn’t send him back and he was going back on his own to keep fighting, the black hat said the guy was hooked on the fighting.


34 posted on 05/12/2023 8:44:57 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: eastforker

Reminds me of the movie “The Best Years Of Our Lives”, when they returned home, and miss being important.


35 posted on 05/12/2023 8:46:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Seems like he is a fool or a hero depending on which side one supports in the current Ukraine war.


36 posted on 05/12/2023 8:48:15 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: Levy78

Swift had probably had a snootful of Brandon’s new woke military and said, I’m outta here.


37 posted on 05/12/2023 8:51:57 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: MinorityRepublican

War is fun until lose some body parts.


38 posted on 05/12/2023 9:05:30 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Responsibility2nd
Can you say PTSD? I knew you could.

Yeah. He went AWOL and then reappeared in Ukraine fighting the Russians. OTOH I say good for him. On the other he really let a lot of people down.

39 posted on 05/12/2023 9:07:10 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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To: Rummyfan
On the other he really let a lot of people down.

Not really. His wife took the kids away from him. So what's the point?

40 posted on 05/12/2023 9:15:04 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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