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Posted: 5/7/2024 10:09:48 PM EDT
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That's a great video, something inside I have never seen before. Thanks for sharing.
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Tag for later.
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Ask the Indians (casino, not curry) if immigration laws are important.
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On behalf of 2/19, 5SFG(A) and our fantastic SOT-A……you’re welcome!
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How does the National Guard have SF teams?
Were they SF on active duty and mustered out of active service? |
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Member Ranstad's Militia
You ever notice that no one says "don't judge me" when they've done something positive? - gearjammer351 Do it. GD needs entertainment. Your misery will amuse us. - Cypselus |
Originally Posted By Mike_314: How does the National Guard have SF teams? Were they SF on active duty and mustered out of active service? View Quote 19th and 20th They go through the same pipeline as regular SF dudes, from my understanding, but they're National Guard. SF National Guard |
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Why is the sky blue?
What makes the green grass grow? |
Originally Posted By Mike_314: How does the National Guard have SF teams? Were they SF on active duty and mustered out of active service? View Quote You can be NG and SF, or you can be AD, leave and go NG SF. Either way, as mentioned before they go through the same pipeline, have the same missions and capabilities, and the same optempo. |
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DeltaElite777: It's not enough to just para bellum. If you really vis pacem, you gotta convince any potential troublemaker that not only can you push their shit in Genghis Khan-style, but you will.
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Steve Earle - Copperhead Road (Official Music Video) |
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Originally Posted By Usernames: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/25665/1000026734_jpg-3208472.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/25665/1000026736_jpg-3208473.JPG View Quote That's right. It wasn't much different 7 years later when I went to A-stan. |
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Why is the sky blue?
What makes the green grass grow? |
SPC Joseph Jeffries was a Psyoper assigned to CJSOTF in AFG. Later this month marks the 20th anniversary of his death. Over the years I heard a couple of variations in the story of how he died, and both involved him being attached to an ODA team.
Seeing this video reminded me of him. I miss you brother. See you again one day. |
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Great video op. Thanks for sharing
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connoisseur of fine Soviet and European armored vehicles
https://t.me/arfcom_ukebros Let's go Brandon CINCAFUGD |
I was in country in 02-03. We were actually fighting a war then.
When I went back in 07 it was all touchy feely and fast food. |
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That’s some ratted out sewer pipe AKs or really bad ammo to keyhole like that.
Narrator sounded like a young Ewan McGregor at times. |
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Originally Posted By 11boomboom: 19th and 20th They go through the same pipeline as regular SF dudes, from my understanding, but they're National Guard. SF National Guard View Quote the same way Air National Guard units have Combat Controllers. they go places and do things. |
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Somewhere in the middle of hardcore Conservative and Libertarian.
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Used to have the 11th and 12th in the USAR as well. Got shut down in the early 90’s.
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How did a 17 year old wind up embedded with them?
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Originally Posted By Vote4Cthulhu: How did a 17 year old wind up embedded with them? View Quote He joined the NG in that slot. I saw this doc when it came out and I’ve always wondered how that went when he finally went to SFAS and the Q Course having already done at least one combat deployment with an ODA. |
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Dildos don't even make me raise an eyebrow anymore... you've got to have something a whole lot weirder than that in your rectum if you want to impress me. - TheGrayMan
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Originally Posted By joker581: He joined the NG in that slot. I saw this doc when it came out and I’ve always wondered how that went when he finally went to SFAS and the Q Course having already done at least one combat deployment with an ODA. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By joker581: Originally Posted By Vote4Cthulhu: How did a 17 year old wind up embedded with them? He joined the NG in that slot. I saw this doc when it came out and I’ve always wondered how that went when he finally went to SFAS and the Q Course having already done at least one combat deployment with an ODA. Incredible. Was that a combat camera billet? Wonder what that guy's doing now. |
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Dildos don't even make me raise an eyebrow anymore... you've got to have something a whole lot weirder than that in your rectum if you want to impress me. - TheGrayMan
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I didn't think you could come in fres noff the street to SF back then?
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Originally Posted By NoMoAMMO: I didn't think you could come in fres noff the street to SF back then? View Quote Maybe it was different in the NG, but I'd be surprised if they were taking 17 year olds and sending them downrange sans basic and AIT, let alone without a long tab as part of a team. AD 18x contracts for recruits definitely would have required all of those things. Crazier things have happened though, and clearly there was some unique circumstance at play here. |
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Excellent vid. Thanks OP
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"The Maximum Effective Range of an excuse is Zero." kugelblitz
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Good video, I trained with some of the 5th group guys back in the day, a million years ago.
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Originally Posted By Vote4Cthulhu: Maybe it was different in the NG, but I'd be surprised if they were taking 17 year olds and sending them downrange sans basic and AIT, let alone without a long tab as part of a team. AD 18x contracts for recruits definitely would have required all of those things. Crazier things have happened though, and clearly there was some unique circumstance at play here. View Quote It was probably something like a split option contract where he did his basic infantry stuff and went back to his unit to wait for the rest. |
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Dildos don't even make me raise an eyebrow anymore... you've got to have something a whole lot weirder than that in your rectum if you want to impress me. - TheGrayMan
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At the 42:40 Min mark
Dude talking about "If we stay long enough, they'll see the good things were doing and they will make the change" Needs to be saved the next time we get into a country and think we can change them with our good example... So we can remember that and know it does not work. |
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Just Drop... Buckethead!
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Originally Posted By Harv24: At the 42:40 Min mark Dude talking about "If we stay long enough, they'll see the good things were doing and they will make the change" Needs to be saved the next time we get into a country and think we can change them with our good example... So we can remember that and know it does not work. View Quote Yeah I caught that too. All the way through the war there were still massive swaths of the military who thought that if we gave stuff to people they would like us. Wam, bam, problem solved. It's a bit more complicated. |
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Originally Posted By Usernames: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/25665/1000026734_jpg-3208472.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/25665/1000026736_jpg-3208473.JPG View Quote Glad I wasn’t the only one to notice the keyholing. Worn out rifles or a messed up crown on the muzzle….not the shooter’s fault. Note the lack of ear protection as well, much less eyewear. Eeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….. |
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a loaded gun won’t set you free, so you say…
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I'm reading Caravans, by James Michener, which is about Afghanistan. He makes it pretty clear it will never change.
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Originally Posted By Vote4Cthulhu: Yeah I caught that too. All the way through the war there were still massive swaths of the military who thought that if we gave stuff to people they would like us. Wam, bam, problem solved. It's a bit more complicated. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Vote4Cthulhu: Originally Posted By Harv24: At the 42:40 Min mark Dude talking about "If we stay long enough, they'll see the good things were doing and they will make the change" Needs to be saved the next time we get into a country and think we can change them with our good example... So we can remember that and know it does not work. Yeah I caught that too. All the way through the war there were still massive swaths of the military who thought that if we gave stuff to people they would like us. Wam, bam, problem solved. It's a bit more complicated. Our enemies foreign & domestic may fear our warriors but they know they can wear down our vote-whore leaders and feminized polity. In country our generosity & compassion makes us look weak and acquiescing. In the jihadi world only the conquered pay tribute. A century of occupation & culling might have been enough. The modern world is too impatient and our media is the greatest weapon against the west. That doesn’t diminish our warriors dedication, focus, and capabilities so admirable and should be long honored & remembered. But it certainly is complicated. |
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Originally Posted By Mike_314: How does the National Guard have SF teams? Were they SF on active duty and mustered out of active service? View Quote In addition to the 19th and 20th (which have already been covered), the Army Reserve also used to have the 11th and 12th SF Groups. When the Army Reserve got stripped of 98% of its Combat Arms units (the only remaining Reserve combat unit is the 100th/442nd), in the early 90's, the 11th and 12th got deactivated and, AIUI, most of their personnel xferred into the Guard units. |
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