Truthfully I can't. They give us little warning for even the most mundane of shit. Buddy of mine got 48hr notice he was going to Syria for 90 days.
I usually do the V for victory sign but I could do an okay symbol. Hope being filmed is not on the menu though.
>Rolling through FOB inna Afghanistan.
>Give V for victory to people as we roll through
>some NCO takes offense starts screaming
>PEACE SIGN!?!?
>I hang out of my hatch
>V for Victory...FAGGOT.
Nobody found out it was me.
Don't go making me all tearful now, anon. I'll make sure to pray for Bub and his family this Veteran's day.
Being down range was the best part of the military. Garrison was fucking gay.
Gonna be a long weekend if that happens. I got my letter of authorization so I'm g2g for domestic stuff.
A lot of us not-so-young pups want to do Bub and a lot of the OG Blackwater dudes proud. They've huge shoes to fill.
Despite the name changes, the reformatting of programs and endless audits, people like Bub left lasting marks on the community's culture.
The higher ups did skate. Maybe they'll get theirs, maybe they wont. They will in hell though.
The incident changed the way we do training in a radical way. Potentially saving many lives. There's a lot of ways the very public event changed things. At the very least, Glen's sacrifice reminded us, we can still be heroes, with out uniforms.
>more leeway
less
>less bureaucracy?
no, more.
>send in closest assets
no
We do an entire course on survive fires. and we've tightened up on indig partners.
>when that kush hits you.
Everyone in the community really thought it would go the opposite. We saw a major attack on our own, on our diplomatic elements to be a signal for the leash to come off. Back to no stop convoys and allowing us to do what we do best.
The opposite happened, some contracts didn't get renewed. We downsized and we arbitrated new training scenarios. New TTPs came out that were cautious and furtive and not necessarily the American bravado that were used to.
The tighter rules on indigs is causing a near diplomatic incident in a country I can't name. They have been pushing for further integration and there's a line that were unwilling to let them cross.
This pretty much summed it up. I said hell about their gun running with the French early in the Libyan war and I couldn't get anyone to listen.
That clip makes me gnash my teeth to this day.
I don't now for certain. Benghazi was definitely people getting burned though.
They were definitely cleaning up, letting the Jihadis clean up their work.
We call them salvages usually.
Or laughing at Gaddafi getting ass raped to death with a knife. She's a fucking psycho.
We use salvage teams all the time in East Asia. It's usually foreign assets, it's never our own guys, let alone a fucking ambo.
more shitty fashwave I made.
Biden looks ambivalent. I wanna punch his face into custard.
Jog my memory. Probably not, assisted with some HUMINT stuff in Djibouti bu that's about it.
You near Lares?
I will still kicking around in the Military, almost strictly Middle East.
Do you know Hooter? He was out there attached to NSW around that time frame.
Not everyone in the FEMA groups is actually FEMA. Stay safe.
So you were a squid squid, not SWC or DEVGRU or what have you. Yeah man you're not wrong. My brother is in the navy and he was doing extractions off the Somali coast and moving people to Djibouti. It's not irregular at all to have somebodies moving around down there.
Nothing wrong with zerohedge if you can vet your facts.
I'm half drunk on gin and it's late at night but just reading it makes me want to smash boulders together and rip people in half with my hands.
I used to take latin as a kid but I've forgotten most if not all of it. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori is "it is sweet and right to die for one's fatherland."
Dulce Et Decorum Est is also the title of a poem written by Wilfred Owen. A writer I enjoy.
I just think of everything everyone's done before me. The titan levels of accomplishment, the indomitable will, iron courage and righteous fury. I'm filled with the simultaneous desire to create destroy accomplish and sabotage.
Pure inspiration, raw potential.
I've urged caution and temperance this entire time. :l
>is it happening?
I dunno.
>yeah but is it
I've personally experienced being told it was happening only to have it be canceled.
I know, but I take any excuse to point people to Wilfred Owen. He captures being in mortal combat pretty splendidly with "Apologia Pro Poemate Meo".
, too, saw God through mud -
The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled.
War brought more glory to their eyes than blood,
And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.
Merry it was to laugh there -
Where death becomes absurd and life absurder.
For power was on us as we slashed bones bare
Not to feel sickness or remorse of murder.
DC not on the map.
The delicacy and strength of the human form is vexing. I'd love to rip spleens with you.
>rip and tear!
I was told to expect a non-permissive environment in the DC area when making movements. It's interesting their map doesn't show a planned DC protest.
They usually can draw a pretty good crowd in DC for the dumbest shit too.
I'm not saying you're a shill bro, I'm just saying don't harangue meh pls.