I'm sure a PDF will pop up eventually. I wouldn't personally place much value on "spec ops" books anyways. I'm of the opinion that a lot of them embellish the truth a la Marcus Luttrell and Operation Redwings.
Have you ever listened to S2 Underground? Short of it is he's a former military analyst and mainly shares a lot about radio set ups and translates his radio and surveillance tactics into an easily digestible video for civilians with an interest in such topics. I mention him because he, in a recent video, had a bit of a retrospective on the GWOT during the review of the book Out of the Mountains by David KilCullen. It was an interesting listen and might just repeat more of what you already may have thought but I thought he made some interesting points in relation to the GWOT and how it was handled from a lower level perspective.
Honestly, a breath of fresh air to hear someone not moaning "Woe me, I've got trained 15 years to be a soldier, but nobody taught me how to be a civilian." narrative that one hears all the time.
The sad part is you have to do a program called TGPS/Capstone prior to your discharge where they take a week to show you how to write a resume, contact a VSO, apply for benefits, give you a whole list of yellow ribbon employers and contacts, and more now before your EAOS. My little brother got extended into his IRR period so he could do it. I'm a retard and I figured all that shit out just clicking through VA.gov and using google, these permanent manchildren bro-vet types just want to be a victim tortured soul because it sells a better book.
The sad part is you have to do a program called TGPS/Capstone prior to your discharge where they take a week to show you how to write a resume, contact a VSO, apply for benefits, give you a whole list of yellow ribbon employers and contacts, and more now before your EAOS. My little brother got extended into his IRR period so he could do it. I'm a retard and I figured all that shit out just clicking through VA.gov and using google, these permanent manchildren bro-vet types just want to be a victim tortured soul because it sells a better book.
For civilian integration, wear jeans, a t-shirt, sneakers and don't bark orders at your co-workers. Also, keep the dark humor jokes to yourself when people might not get it. It's really that easy.
But apparently we are asking too much out of our former service members.
Interview with former Delta Operator Robert Keller, friend of Brian Gilligan the peeping Tom. Talks about the perils of training foreign fighters, and how he thought selection was easy and was underwhelmed (but still says Delta is the best of course).
Interview with former Delta Operator Robert Keller, friend of Brian Gilligan the peeping Tom. Talks about the perils of training foreign fighters, and how he thought selection was easy and was underwhelmed (but still says Delta is the best of course).
He seems like a bit of an over-caffeneited egomaniac, and you can see the concussion effects when he speaks and slurs a bit. I also noticed the dip cup, ew. But he does seem a bit more self-aware about The Unit work, burn-out, injuries, being a loyal dog, etc. and also pretty smart about the "not training foreign forces" part.
I would have brought up this ultimate Delta lolcow earlier, but I don't have as many receipts as I would like because I didn't archive his deleted Instagram lives. Matt Pranka - @xray.alpha.llc on Instagram- is a retired Delta Operator who is fat, has smartphone neck, is an alcoholic, and has a pathological hatred of seemingly everyone and everything besides himself. He originally enlisted in the Navy to become a SEAL, quit BUD/s in week one, and then served as a Navy corpsman for 16 years. At the age of 34 he passed Delta selection on his first attempt and became an operator, where he served from 2010-2019. He still has a Rumble account where you can view a lot of his rants: https://rumble.com/c/c-1985792?page=6
Here he is after literally being shot in the buttocks
From his time as a Navy corpsman attached to the Marines (apologies for the stupid predditor Face blur)
I thought Delta had a verbal IQ test vetting lmao. That sounds like Rekieta during his boozed up rants. Also the safari hunting trip. Remember the movie Black Hawk Down down how "Delta uses Oakleys". Seems it was not a meme lol. Same with the Red Wings photo.
By the way, so many American flag group photos. And big American flags on the chest and the shoulder and helmets. I am staring to wonder if the TBIs are making them forget the country they are from and they need them to remind themselves by looking at their gear
u/Haunting_Report_6890 is definitely Brent Tucker. Same writing style. I don't get why he felt the need to pose as a customer to promote his coffee. Why not just say "Hey I'm Brent the CEO, check out my website"? And why does it matter that he was in Delta and trains cops? Does that make him better at brewing coffee? Is he going to teach SWAT teams to use excessive force and kill a bunch of civilians with overloaded breaching charges?
He originally enlisted in the Navy to become a SEAL, quit BUD/s in week one, and then served as a Navy corpsman for 16 years. At the age of 34 he passed Delta selection on his first attempt and became an operator,
What's wrong is Delta selection is only 3 weeks long and apparently isn't very hard. There's a famous former SEAL Kevin Holland who got out of the Navy in 1995, re-enlisted in the Army after 9/11 because it was faster logistically than joining the Navy again, and set the record for the fastest time ever in Delta selection despite having been out of the military for 6 years and having only a few months to train.
And there's another dude, Paresh Amin, with a similar career to Pranka. Enlisted to became a SEAL, made it farther than Pranka but quit during hell week, then became a Green Beret, then went to Delta.
What's wrong is Delta selection is only 3 weeks long and apparently isn't very hard. There's a famous former SEAL Kevin Holland who got out of the Navy in 1995, re-enlisted in the Army after 9/11 because it was faster logistically than joining the Navy again, and set the record for the fastest time ever in Delta selection despite having been out of the military for 6 years and having only a few months to train.
I was under the impression that selection was basically a really long PT test to show you had the minimum requirement to not die on the first day of the actual course.
What's wrong is Delta selection is only 3 weeks long and apparently isn't very hard. There's a famous former SEAL Kevin Holland who got out of the Navy in 1995, re-enlisted in the Army after 9/11 because it was faster logistically than joining the Navy again, and set the record for the fastest time ever in Delta selection despite having been out of the military for 6 years and having only a few months to train. View attachment 5746949
And there's another dude, Paresh Amin, with a similar career to Pranka. Enlisted to became a SEAL, made it farther than Pranka but quit during hell week, then became a Green Beret, then went to Delta. View attachment 5746953
Yeah, becoming a SEAL is a pain in the ass. BUD/S and SQT are a year long. And the first phase of BUD/S is fucking 7 weeks of getting crushed physically in the beach and surf.
Compared to that, if you are good with a ruck and a map and you train for it, one can more quickly make it to Delta. Especially the physical part which is just around a month long. It's not easy, especially with things like the long walk which is 40 miles with a 90 pound ruck and a 7 pound dummy rifle. But it is not a hell-week like in BUD/S. If you pass the long walk, then there's the 6-month-long OTC to make it to Delta proper as an assaulter, but at that point you are already training for operator shit doing CQB in the OTC. In the SEALs, until 3rd phase of BUD/S you are not even given a gun, from what I've seen.
If it were me, and wanted to become an "elite ooperator" today, I'd go either to the Ranger Regiment or go 18X for Special Forces. Maybe then try for Delta. But I don't want brain damage from door breaching overpressure so I'm good.
And holy shit, look at this. The 18X recruiting in the official GoArmy has a Spanish page. I mean, there's nothing wrong with a Latino serving, but shouldn't they first learn English properly before joining the fucking Special Forces of the US? Maybe there's an English language fast track program? There's definitely a recruiting crisis, though, clearly.
haha Brent was in a top secret military unit but does not know the concept of a linguistic fingerprint haha
I think the Delta and coffee connection comes from the fact that many in LEO and the Army brovet sphere are both addicted to caffeine, agree with Brent's politics and want to support an alternative economy that is "non-globohomo".
I also imagine re-branding coffee from the raw product must be pretty easy all things considered. You have Shawn Ryan peddling gummy bears (not the fun ones) after all so I think bro vets look for an easy product to either create and rebrand, which, fair enough. Business is business and nobody gives you points for making it harder on yourself.
US Special Forces are the gayest shit on Earth and I'm fairly convinced they would do more harm than good in real wars and will eventually be as obsolete as grenadiers. The last thing you need in a war is a bunch of over hyped, coddled faggots with severe mental issues, giant egos and dubious morality going around thinking they're God's gift to warfare and better than everybody else in your army. The culture around this stuff that's been allowed to fester for decades is eventually going to bite them in the ass.
Not smart enough to be a glowie, too egotistical to be a marine, played just enough Halo growing up to want to be part of an elite military unit and to make that your entire personality.
I do agree though, the tactical gains of this type of unit seem questionable relative to the strategic losses one suffers by having gangs of emotionally damaged men with zero accountability traipsing around other peoples' countries with weapons. On the other hand, I'm not an operator, so what do I know.
And holy shit, look at this. The 18X recruiting in the official GoArmy has a Spanish page. I mean, there's nothing wrong with a Latino serving, but shouldn't they first learn English properly before joining the fucking Special Forces of the US? Maybe there's an English language fast track program? There's definitely a recruiting crisis, though, clearly.
A huge amount of people (41ish million) speak Spanish at home, though even among them about 80% still are relatively proficient in English. It's by far the largest non English language in the country, and technically the US doesn't have an official language. With the emphasis on language learning already existing for these special forces roles and that most Spanish speakers in the US are also going to know English anyways, I can't imagine that this targeted advertising would result in people who outright don't know English making it all the way.
Don't worry, neophyte (learned a new word today, thanks!) I will guide you.
What we know as 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (SFOD-D) or Delta Force, is not recognized by the army as existing. So every name it has, it's a bullshit fake name.
Delta Force or 1stSFOD-D was never officially put into any document. People in that organization call themselves "The Unit" because the reality is that it is just a unit that is part of USASOC (United States Army Special Operations Command) that is not officially recognized. Every so often, they change the bullshit names of "The Unit" for the reason I imagine you are asking this question. To confuse people about who is being talked about for a certain period of time. So "The Unit" which was first called 1stSFOD-D, or Delta Force, then changed the name to Combat Applications Group or CAG, and now it's called the Special Mission Unit or SMU.
In short, Delta Force, CAG, SMU are the same unit, staffed by the same people. They just call themselves "The Unit". The key here is that the army just refers to them as parts of USASOC, which is just a staff organization. Let's read part of Gary Gordon's Medal of Honor citation, and you'll see that they only refer to him as a part of USASOC working with Task Force Ranger. Not as a Delta Force member.
Master Sergeant Gary Ivan Gordon, United States Army, distinguished himself by actions above and beyond the call of duty on 3 October 1993, while serving as Sniper Team Leader, United States Army Special Operations Command with Task Force Ranger in Mogadishu, Somalia. Master Sergeant Gordon's sniper team provided precision fires from the lead helicopter during an assault and at two helicopter crash sites, while subjected to intense automatic weapons and rocket propelled grenade fires.
So why a CAG dude was carrying a hatchet? And why are we making fun of him? (the second part of the question)
SEAL team six, Red squadron officer Hugh Wyman Howard III had the bright idea to give hand forged hatchets that were made by the dude who made the accurate hatchets for the movie "The last of the Mohicans" to every member of Red squad who served more than a year, and told them "get their hatchets bloodied", like their Indian mascot (picture of the flag "the redmen" in the OP). War crimes, including dismemberment, decapitations and skinning of the dead Taliban ensued, as a form of psychological warfare and just pure sadism and bloodlust.
The war crimerinos trickled down to other units, because SOF is a small world, including into Delta (CAG in those times) so if you see Delta dude with a hatchet that looks hand forged and in a leather cover, it's either a CAG operator LARPing as a tough dude, trying to intimidate the locals, or an actual war criminal who uses those hatches to desecrate bodies of the people they killed. That's the only reason you'd carry an old hand forged Indian hatchet into a modern battlefield. So yeah, we are "making fun of him" but it is also not funny what they did.
Edit: Mistake I made. Delta was who started desecrating bodies with hatchets, but because a former SEAL team six Red squadron member, Kevin Holland, who had joined Delta at the time, had the idea to bring hatchets to Delta. And then quickly it spread out to all Tier ones.
Delta's B-squadron was even kind enough to give us a picture of a real canoeing from 2004, isn't that lovely of them?
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Guys, say it with me, so Brent Tucker doesn't have to keep making alts.
"I CAN'T STAND BRCC ANYMORE. I MOVE TO FIRST RESPONDER'S COFFEE COMPANY. WAAAAY BETTER COFFEE AND THEY ACTUALLY ALIGN WITH OUR VALUES. THE OWNER WAS A DELTA FORCE GUY, HEARD HIM ON A PODCAST. FRCCoffee.com!"
Brent Tucker, I hope you are happy, you old fart. To be fair, you don't seem like a closeted sex pest homo, and you don't want to buttfuck the shit out of your employees like some other veteran coffee company chief, so it's okay. I gave you free advertising. Just stop being so fucking trashy with the cigars. You don't need to force yourself to smoke on the podcast. Cigars are meant to be enjoyed, not aggressively sucked off.
Edit: Brent Tucker has restraining order on him in Florida archive / Laura Janine Primau vs Brent Tucker. Bro-vet military coffee peddlers are always suspect, it would seem.
The 18X recruiting in the official GoArmy has a Spanish page. I mean, there's nothing wrong with a Latino serving, but shouldn't they first learn English properly before joining the fucking Special Forces of the US? Maybe there's an English language fast track program?
"We white folk don't do this rucking, map reading, canoeing and hatching the dead anymore. Just like a drywall installing or cleaning hotel rooms. It's more of a job for a Mexican or Nicaraguan, Y'know?...
Security clearance? What are you talking about? They don't understand English. They can't read classified material, It's perfect; we just say 'Juan, este hombre matalo' we point the finger, and it's done! And for cheap too! Best outsourcing we've ever done!"
