I am American, I believe in America, have fought for America, and can care less what people think or say about me. Change my mind? No, change yours.
Olympus Mons, Mars
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Good morning folks.
Here is your Wednesdays PSA.
Not everything posted on X/ IG/ TT/ FB is real. But this 👇🏾maybe.
So I’m sitting, thinking about my next trip overseas. The wife and I were thinking Japan. Then I came across the video of the Japanese woman in the stitch video. The first thing I said to the wife was, “That’s a psyop.”
My wife asks, “How can you tell?”
“I don’t know; it just feels like it is,” I say.
Then I came across this video and just showed it to my wife.
I feel validated.
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I conducted a lot missions alongside European forces. They did well. Some better than others. Some more aggressive than others (talking about my Czech SOF Bros!).
The Euro Troops were hamstrung by their countries Rules of Engagement.
2010 Marjah:
British Apache gunships we’re called to CAS.
They checked in, given a 9 line. Shortly after the Taliban would drop their weapons and walk away. The British would not shot them because they dropped their weapons.
We push the Apaches away, Taliban returns and continues to shot.
British Apaches checks off and replaced by American CAS. Taliban don’t know this and started to play the same game. Only this time they weren’t able to walk away.
Later that day several of my teammates and Afghans were wounded. British Chinook checks in and MEDEVAC the wounded. The pilot was shoot in the head on EXFIL, but was able to fly back. He was awarded the highest medal from acts of heroism.
The point I am making is that we all know what we did. We all should be proud of our service and those we served with.
We give each other a hard time because that is the way we cope. I understand people hate Pete. He was a Soldier, talks like a Soldier, and has the heart of a Soldier.
Get over it.
We all mourn our losses. We as Soldiers do it in ways atypical. Our humor is atypical and not always meant in the way snowflakes like. We do bad things to bad people, and bad people do bad things to us.
So while you are sitting around sipping on $10 coffees pontificating your hatred online, there is a Soldier defending your fragility.
I would rather have a Sec Def that is untethered from making politically correct statements. We respect people who speak their minds, and that includes saying things people don’t like hearing.
Troops in combat environments play many roles regardless of job descriptions.
Some Army National Guard units were in the fight, some were in supporting roles. Does that mean those in supporting roles didn’t want to fight? No, they had a mission and that was their focus.
Do we give them shit? YUP! Not to be mean, but out of love.
Some people and Soldiers act like being a Soldier is all about empowering, and safe spaces. That mindset is annoying as hell and counter productive for warfighters.
May your countrymen Rest In Peace.
I conducted one mission with the Polish SOF out of Ghazni in 2010.
They did great.
The only problem was when they exfil’d after the mission they left a guy on the battlefield. To this day I don’t understand why.
He eventually linked up with my team and flew back to base with us.
Apparently the reason he stayed behind was because one of his soldiers left an important part to a weapon system behind and he went to retrieve it.
Tell that, Mr @SecWar, to the families of 44 Polish soldiers who died securing the tough Ghazni province.