Scott: Amanpour is a terrible reporter. I had the pleasure of throwing out on her butt litterally when we were getting ready to doa raid in Haiti back in 94. Best feeling I had in a long time.

I just got turned onto this via UncleJimbos Blackfive and I have to say that I’m glad. Great stuff all of you, I say again, REPEAT FIRE MISSION over. As a former Recon Marine and Scout Sniper Platoon Sergeant from 77-97 I’m sure some of us have chewed the same dirt. I’m glad to read something else from some of you guys over there doing the deed. Keep up the good work and get home safe. I’d be there withya if I wasn’t so busted up from my time. One of the other blogs I like and have been following is One Marines view. If you have any other links to guys on the ground around you please clue me in so I can keep schooling these folks back home with your front line reports and perspectives. I see all the stuff on the blogroll but you’d know the best and I’d appreciate you opinion.

As to the video the only things I would add to the above is that it’s hollywood guys. This would not be the first time (nor sadly the last) the media has left the great stories and excellent footage on the cutting room floors in favor of the most horrible anti military slant they can spin. Yeah, it’s a shame (and hopefully prosecutable under the UCMJ) that the Command and ODA gave em so much frigging help; but I’ve had it happen and I’m sure most of you have seen it too.

NO. I’m not giving any of the amature BS we DID see a pass. Yes, alot of it was goofy or stupid. Much of it was WAY below acceptable. And the shooting; maybe criminal but we’ll probably never know for sure. The points made above about the standards of both Afgan and SF should be investigated. Voluteers? Absolutely some heads should roll; from the Officer who authorized the release, to the Communist Buttpirate Shitheads (CBS), to the gunslinger shooting first and asking questions later. Needless to say I have LONG been a 7.62 advocate.

I thought to BE SF you HAD to have an ear for language? Hell I’m frigging pretty language impaired in my native tounge, but even I managed to learn enough, wherever I was, to get my points across. Ok, so “more beer”, “nice tits” and “how much” may not be SF material but it worked better than what I saw and heard on the video. Did they edit out any of the going native kinda stuff I had come to expect of the sneaky petes? I agree that there are more questions than answers and it don’t look good for the home team. Thing is; how can we help FIX that? Constructive critisisim means bringing answers along with the questions. We all can plainly see whats wrong, but the suggestions on how to unfuck it are to few.

I can gurantee we DIDN’t see more than we did and suggest we keep that in mind as to the bigger picture. Ok, so this ODA is caught on tape doing some seriously bonehead shit, the media exploited it, and the command involved either let themselves get screwed or need relieved. To be perfectly honest I prolly did and said some of the same shit when I was young, dumb and full of cum. I saw to much of this cowboyery across ALL the services and nobody seemed totally immune. Don’t try and BS a bullshitter that your service branch or unit NEVER had any of this kinda stuff. Even if you personally didn’t witness it, it does happen to one degree or another. So how bout giving the SF sucks or Marines rule shit a rest.

IS this endemic? Not from what the guys over there I have talked to say but I’m all ears to hear your experiences. It’s a sad fact we ALL ALWAYS have our 10 percent. Maybe more, maybe less, in some outfits at some times, but on the whole my experience with the sister services SOF was pretty decent compared to that of other countries. I even saw some of the same things in the SAS and French Foreign Legion too. Much less of it and not to the levels exposed here but I heard things like it. Something about young men with lotsa training and combat stresses getting off the chain every now and again…I can’t confirm or deny.

The last thing I wanted to point out is that I WILL NOT second guess you guys on the ground or armchair quarterback. You get to frigging much of that from DC to Joe couch potatoe. In fact, I’m doin all I can to combat that kinda behavior back here and have your backs. So, please, keep the live feeds coming so we can use your output as ‘real deal’ clubs to whack people over the heads with.

Not only is what your doing here a boon to truth and justice but it’s great fun too… Nothing like listening to some liberal civilian puke ranting about shit he knows nothing about and smacking him across the face with “Well here’s what the guys who are THERE NOW are saying..” I’d wack em in the balls with it if their ole ladies didn’t have em at home in a jar. LOL

One Shot, One kill.

Headhunter out.

I have seen ALOT of changes in the younger generation SOF who are now becoming TL’s and it is only getting worse.

The professionalism is slowly being replaced with entitlement within many of these units.