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Friday, January 09, 2009
HBO Offers Something Worthwhile
A hat-tip to Thunder Run for posting this:
I'm not sure I'll be able to watch...
3 comments:
Anonymous
said...
I have a friend who was in Special Forces during the 80s, and he tells all kinds of wild stories. Are they true? Some of them true? I don't know, but they are some of the wildest stories I've ever heard. In one story his buddy was killed by a landmine and he carried the dead man several miles through the Cambodian jungle to the dust-off point. The chopper that came for him was set up for hauling VIPs, and the pilot didn't want the dead guy's bloody body to get the chopper dirty. My friend indicated his rifle, looked the chopper pilot in the eye and said, "Ownership is 90% of the law, and I own this f-----g weapon." The chopper pilot got the point and my friend and his dead buddy were lifted out.
It's interesting the film is about Marines. Ironically, perhaps, my friend had nothing but contempt for Marines (and Rangers) who he said were were a bunch of f-----g dumb a---s that are brainwashed to step out in front of bullets without a second thought if another dumb a-- tells them to, and he laughs, also, about the mess tent grunt who they used as a guinea pig during a poison gas situation. The gizmo box said the air was clear, but of course you don't let anybody take off their masks until you're sure. So you grab the lowest guy on the totem pole and make him take off his mask first, just to be sure. My friend laughs and laughs when he tells about that poor grunt going out of his mind cussing them out after they "grabbed his a--" and took his mask off. Fortunately, the gizmo box was right. Who said war is hell?
Your friend is full of shit. 1.) If he was SF in the '80s, then Cambodia was 20 years over. 2.) Anyone who was in the Army, knows that aviation guys do remarkable and courageous things regularly and aren't concerned with getting their machine bloody. 3.) a "VIP" configured helicopter would not exist in SEA operations. 4.) Most SF guys are Rangers first. I've known a lot of them and never heard a one disparage the Marines. 5.) Chemical warfare equipment has long precluded such antics as pulling the mask off a fellow-soldier to test.
Today we've got more poseurs and wannabes than warriors. Tell your friend he's been unmasked and he needs to consume a large can of STFU.
3 comments:
I have a friend who was in Special Forces during the 80s, and he tells all kinds of wild stories. Are they true? Some of them true? I don't know, but they are some of the wildest stories I've ever heard. In one story his buddy was killed by a landmine and he carried the dead man several miles through the Cambodian jungle to the dust-off point. The chopper that came for him was set up for hauling VIPs, and the pilot didn't want the dead guy's bloody body to get the chopper dirty. My friend indicated his rifle, looked the chopper pilot in the eye and said, "Ownership is 90% of the law, and I own this f-----g weapon." The chopper pilot got the point and my friend and his dead buddy were lifted out.
It's interesting the film is about Marines. Ironically, perhaps, my friend had nothing but contempt for Marines (and Rangers) who he said were were a bunch of f-----g dumb a---s that are brainwashed to step out in front of bullets without a second thought if another dumb a-- tells them to, and he laughs, also, about the mess tent grunt who they used as a guinea pig during a poison gas situation. The gizmo box said the air was clear, but of course you don't let anybody take off their masks until you're sure. So you grab the lowest guy on the totem pole and make him take off his mask first, just to be sure. My friend laughs and laughs when he tells about that poor grunt going out of his mind cussing them out after they "grabbed his a--" and took his mask off. Fortunately, the gizmo box was right. Who said war is hell?
Your friend is full of shit.
1.) If he was SF in the '80s, then Cambodia was 20 years over.
2.) Anyone who was in the Army, knows that aviation guys do remarkable and courageous things regularly and aren't concerned with getting their machine bloody.
3.) a "VIP" configured helicopter would not exist in SEA operations.
4.) Most SF guys are Rangers first. I've known a lot of them and never heard a one disparage the Marines.
5.) Chemical warfare equipment has long precluded such antics as pulling the mask off a fellow-soldier to test.
Today we've got more poseurs and wannabes than warriors. Tell your friend he's been unmasked and he needs to consume a large can of STFU.
Who knows?
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Terrorism/UncleSam_PolPot.html
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