I want to say what a fine job the mods do running this joint. Beautiful, handsome, amazing humans, in my opinion!
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I agree completely! This forum still feels very human thankfully.
I used my time in the mountains to start reading a copy of "Inside Delta Force" by Eric Haney.
At last.
I finished the selection part and I'm starting the training part. First off, it's remarkably well written. It's pretty impressive what someone can do without a ghost writer. Having said that, if it was published today, I'd call it a ballwasher book. It has that boomerish feel of "Everyone I work with was great, we had the best people, and everyone was tough but fair". Which, having been written by a boomer, I guess it fits.
Having said that, there are parts of the book, even in selection, that are quite alarming if you look at it with a critical eye.
For example he writes
"In order to become counter-terrorists, we have to become terrorists" Which I get it, it's a form of speech. The original intent would be to write something like "To become counter-terrorists, we need to learn how terrorist work" but considering that Delta selection is a test of Individual effort plus you are given the knowledge of how to "become a terrorist", it does sound some alarm bells.
Also, there's a part with a shrink which as Haney writes is very unprofessional but has a point. He asks a trick question. He asks Haney what would he do if he had orders from his commander to kill a terrorist, and couldn't notify law enforcement or the FBI. And had to go to the city and then, after killing the terrorist, he had to make it out of the city to Fort Bragg.
Haney answers on how he would go about it, but then the shrink berates him as an unthinking red neck and that the terrorist was in fact the commanders wife lover, and that what he did is highly illegal. Haney doesn't seemed troubled about the illegal and immoral parts of this hypothetical action he would have done, and is more upset at being insulted at by a shrink.
There seems to be a culture of following orders to the point where you cannot even fathom your command would ask you to do something illegal and wrong. When you combine that and that he first needs to
"become a terrorist" it really makes me question the kind of people in Delta, even in its infancy. Marshall Brown, who is still in jail for confessing to nine rapes, would have worked side by side, with Haney. Just saying.
Number 6 and 22.
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that the current civilian administration has learned absolutely nothing from GWOT or even Prosperity Guardian, and they still think it is possible to win wars by Special Forces and Air Force/drone bombing alone and that the mass you get out of a conventional military is too expensive and unneeded.
I'm going to toot my own horn for a bit and just mention that Trump ordered a naval attack on the Houthis in Yemen. Again. I'm sure there is some SF element operating there too. Well, whatever. It's not like I'm Nostradamus. And yeah, looking at Reddit, it does seem either full of retards, or bots cheering on this. at least 10 civilians killed (so far.)
Seth Harp changed his Xitter description. "Iraq Veteran against endless wars"
