Tolley starts a scorched earth campaign against Axe.

General Tolley (hereafter known as the poster boy for military leadership at the flag ranks) misspoke at a Special Operations Convention.


During his "talk" he stated that US Special Operations in Korea were running operations into the North.


David Axe reported what he heard and that's when the trouble started.  The knee jerk reaction from many in the Special Ops community was that David reported a lie.  We found out later via the US Forces in Korea spokesperson that he didn't.


They then stated that David should have known better and double checked his facts...my question to the critics is why?  All he did was report what was stated.  Instead of blaming the person who at fault...the poster boy, the reporter is being blamed.  Talk about a case of entitlement!


But I wish it ended there but SOFREP's own Brandon Webb posted this on his blog....

Warning, satire to follow:
The SOFREP editorial staff has heard unconfirmed reports that (name removed) a journalist has committed suicide over his sloppy reporting regarding US Special Operations in North Korea.  He apparently hung himself and a supposed letter was left posted to his hotel room night stand that stated the following:
“I was too ashamed at my own bad reporting and could not go on living knowing that I had resorted to reporting a tabloid headline in order to attract readers attention and try and land more contract work for myself.  I’m ashamed of myself for not having enough common sense to do my homework on the Special Operations community.  I’ll admit that this is rampant in the international news media.  If I had done my research, I would have known that parachute operations into North Korea would be ridiculous from a military strategic perspective and have little return on investment. I encourage people to visit Soldier Systems.net and SOFREP.com for real information on the Military and the Special Operations community.” -(name removed)
The SOFREP staff encourages news media to use multiple credible military sources and read up on issues with regards to their military reporting in the future. After all Special Forces is an Army term not meant for the USN, USMC, and USAF.

To each his own.

But how about we lay blame where it belongs.

General Tolley fucked up, not David.  To make a post like the one above and ignore the real villian, village idiot or poster boy for silliness is just not right.

NOTE:  When Brandon first filed this story, he did it without the "satire" warning and with David Axe's name on full display (in the area where it now states "name removed")