Deleted. I wonder if Seth reads the thread. He's probably not a fan of the racism and transphobia on the farms lol
Probably he glances at what we say. I'm sure he can appreciate speech and fairness in the farms, even if it's not perfect to his politics.
Seth is an insanely intense and brave person. (Him smuggling himself to go to Rojava was insane. I don't have the balls for something like that) I also think his service in Iraq had something to do with it, besides having the personality in him. If we look at one of his first articles "Abandoned in Iraq" we see this quote about one of the soldiers who survived.
"Torres now lives in Tijuana, Mexico, with his second wife and 10-year-old stepson, and works across the border at a shipyard in San Diego. He came home from Iraq in worse shape than Redus. Besides textbook PTSD and chronic back pain, he was both ashamed of having frozen up in combat and grief-stricken for having killed. He had mood swings, surges of aggression."
I don't want to be an armchair psychologist, but it's reasonable he didn't escape the effects war has on people. I'm pretty sure Seth deleting tweets is not because we put them here, but he gets into a bad mood, has a surge of aggression and posts stuff on twitter that he then is like
"I'm such a dumbass, why did I post that." and then deletes it.
Oper8tor blows himself up by forgetting to put the charge on the door and detonating while it's in his pocket
Damn, what the fuck dude. What's wrong with these JSOC guys fucking up with charges. It's not fucking handling a Nuke reactor on a sub. Are they fucked up on ops? Great find man.
After that story there's a description of a parachute accident that is similar to the rumors about a joint Delta/SAS accident in Iraq
Damn, it sounds horrible. "Don't let the thumbs up fool you."
My partaking of this thread has put a lot of the Sean Ryan clips and other shit into my algorithm; and one that stuck out to me was some dude pretty much saying how he was used to getting the princess treatment. How being part of the SEALS meant they had their own facilities they didn't have to share, with better equipment, mats to practice their grappling, and other shit. But they found themselves out on some FOB or something somewhere with the basic ass Marines, and he experienced a culture shock, because the crayon eaters were working out with sand bags and ammo cans and he didn't have his own specialized room to keep the plebs out. I don't remember his name, but I'm guessing he was one of the guys who got SEALS on contract and actually made it, so he never knew anything less. Now take that same mindset, where your operations include getting the jump on people, while you have access to drones and possibly an AWACS, a Sat Phone, and God knows what else... now take that all away. It's literally just you and your buddies and you have to do shit the hard way. You'd be surprised how many "elites" fail at shit, when their special privileges aren't available to them. Throw in if they were contract and it's all they ever known, you take away the special toys and put them on equal ground, well, good luck, at least you know how to shoot under pressure, hopefully.
If I'm reading the sources right, one thing about SEALs is that they were not created for GWOT in the ground. They were created for Naval Special operations (like duh). Think SDV, shore surveillance, small raids in coastal areas, behind enemy lines and covert ops after landing from a sub, and boarding ships. They do have extra specialized training, but to do all of that, but it takes way longer to train someone on all of that. A Marine with a couple years in his field can easily work besides SEALs, like the Marine who worked in the tech van with Alpha and SEAL TEAM 7 in Mosul (who recently commited suicide).
Marines are a whole independent organization, meant to work at a much larger scale in warfare and, if they are from a solid combat unit, I don't think any SEAL would complain about fighting along with them. Eddey Penney if I don't remember wrong, was a marine before becoming a SEAL and then Gold squad. So I think there's a lot of crossover and crosswork.
